I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

When we meet someone and we fall in love we don’t ever imagine that it’s going to end.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.