You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.