Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Government should steer, not row.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

You owe it to your destiny to never allow your thoughts and beliefs to go against your positive desires.

Great tests precede great blessings.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

Fear usually looks like anger.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Precious and spacious The aspiring heart has to remain Always.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.