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

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

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.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

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

You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.