I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

Why wouldn't I root for the Mets? ... I want them to win the same way I want the Yankees to win. I want them to play each other [in the World Series], just like the old days when we played the Dodgers every year. Anyone who lives around here should want that.

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'