For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I'm more of a rodeo type guy.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.