Quotes

[on the passing of Elaine Kaufman] Elaine was a New York institution.

The NRA is only powerful if you and I let them be powerful. I want the Congress to have to stand up and say, 'I'm with the NRA and support killing our children' or 'No'. And if the answer is, 'I'm going to take on that fight', I've got their back.

[on the NRA's response to the Newtown, Conn. school massacre] Instead of offering solutions to a problem they have helped create, they offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America, where everyone is armed and no place is safe.

I have known Trump [Donald Trump] for decades. We have traveled in the same business circles. He is known among other millionaires as a con artist and among business owners as a cheat out to stiff everyone.

[on Britain's decision to leave the EU] I thought it was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done but then we Trumped it.

Why the hell would we hire Donald Trump for another four years?

[2011] The killing of Osama bin Laden does not lessen the suffering that New Yorkers and Americans experienced at his hands, but it is a critically important victory for our nation. ... New Yorkers have waited nearly 10 years for this news.