To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

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.

Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it.

He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.