On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.