In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

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'm sure our supporters would have been very disappointed had Donald Trump not won. And I just hope it calms down.

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.