I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.