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.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

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

Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

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