Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.
I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.
This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.
What I learned from 911 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
I just think it's a really unique thing to women, this weird psychotic jealousy.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.