Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

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

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.