I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.

I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.