The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

The prayers are for the people missing, the people who have died, and for America and for everyone that survived,

We used to be the crime capital and now we're the safest large city in America. We used to be the welfare capital of America and now we're seen as the city that has moved more people off welfare, has moved more people to work from welfare, of any city in America,