Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

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

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

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.

The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.

Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.