The crowds are going to be more than enough to present a challenge for the police and everybody else, and Muhammad Ali will be participating in bringing down the ball, which makes it a truly unique occasion,

It obviously troubles both the police commissioner and me that 41 shots were fired.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

The fact is that both the police and the communities in New York are suffering from the same kind of group blame, group dynamic,

America, ... needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.