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With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.