I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.