With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!

Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.