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.

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

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

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

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

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.