I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.