If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.