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.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

What was broken will never be the same again.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.