In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

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