Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.