Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.