Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.