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'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Government should steer, not row.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage.

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?

So predictable makes you to sleep??Makes you to get interested???So what to start??? A company called Predictable???Really???

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

Understand your fears and then work to conquer them.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.