The President should be focused on making the lives of Americans better. It's what he promised. It's what the country needs.

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.

We create our own reality through our thoughts, emotions and beliefs.

Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it.

Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill. Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill

You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.