One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.

America always recovers.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

I could have beat Obama.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.

I'm a New York businessman.

What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.

The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

What's worse than getting divorced?

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.