If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.