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.

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.

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.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

Some may believe we're on the road to the Hitler youth.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.