If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
I want to come back as me.
When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: