It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.