The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.