I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

Tree killing is arborcide.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.