I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

Work is meant to create a desired outcome. If your work is not creating the dream, what are you working on?

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon