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'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.

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

Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

By that thinking, surely she was not bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

Sometimes i only sleep to wake up