We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

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

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.