Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.