I know a con when I see one.

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.