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.

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.

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.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

Your eyes are my stars of happiness.

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.

In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes