People use so much more health care when they live longer.

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.