Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

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.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of.