America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

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.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Capitalism works.

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