Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

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.

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.

Music is a great healer.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.