"My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty."

"I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now."

"Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment."

"I am the government."

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."

"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."