If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do that's different or - and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

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