The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Between roars the lion purrs.

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

That suit is best that best suits me.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Boris [Johnson] follows the Bullingdon playbook: you break it and someone else has to fix it.