Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

[Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when you're with him. I've played golf with him twice, oh, probably 10, 15 years ago.