America is the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

My father worked all the time.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Progress really is possible.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

You can't depend on polls.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.

Government is dysfunctional.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Capitalism works.

I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.