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.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.

We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.