You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.
There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
Passion is the gasoline of social media.
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.