There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

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.