If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.