I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.

Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it's very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'