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

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

New York is in my DNA.

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.