To learn something new every day is still exciting!

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

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

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.