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.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.