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.

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.

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.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

Be honest first with yourself before with others since that changes the world.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.

Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.