transcended his own religion and became the spiritual leader of the city.

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.

Hey you, … Move it. It’s Tuesday.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

being attacked for doing what I did.

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

Eliot is the right guy to change Albany. As attorney general, he demonstrated a real commitment to reforming institutions from Wall Street to Main Street and I look forward to watching him work on reforming...

I wouldn’t take him lightly at all, … Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they have someone who has a record of achievement.

The Republicans are coming – make nice.

and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.

He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, ‘You’re not doing it exactly the way I did it,’ … ‘You’re talking as though it was the four other boroughs against Manhattan.’...

I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan.

The Republicans are coming — make nice.

there was no limit to how high blacks could rise in my administration.

But nevertheless, I always believed today as he does, that if the United Nations hadn’t been created, we would be creating it.

[Also Monday, the host committee for the Republican National Convention in New York is releasing new TV and radio ads featuring former Mayor Ed Koch and Minnie, a 7,500-pound elephant.] While they’re here, make nice,...

Do you give a youngster drugs? … And how about a woman who is carrying a fetus, and the fetus will be adversely affected when she takes drugs … the state should make that legal?...

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a...