It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

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.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.