I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.