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

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 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.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.

The greatest gift you can give yourself is to develop your full potential.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.