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.

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

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

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

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

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

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.