My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

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.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.