Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.