Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.

Great men have big failures.

This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.