[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.