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.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

God, life changes faster than you think.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.