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.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

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

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

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.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.