If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.

There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.