The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, ... It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

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,

All it's going to do to the New Year's Eve celebration is make it more special, ... The snow should end by the end of the day (Saturday) so we can clean it up, and New York City will look even more beautiful.

The lieutenant governor and the governor called me, and so it developed into a fund-raiser,

I didn't say, 'You should take it,' ... I said, 'If you want to do business with us, we're willing to do business with you.'

I know it's hard to say this, but you've got to keep saying it, that is to relax and deal with it,

I'll tell you his record -- attempted robbery, robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, sale of drugs, and punching someone during a transaction involving the sale of drugs,

If you know that your husband or father or relative was working there, and you've come to terms with the idea that they're dead and they're not going to be recovered, then you can make the choice -- and it's your choice -- to apply for the death certificate,

If people had stayed in their apartments, we might have come away without serious injuries,

I know that this is a very painful and difficult process, ... We just have to begin this process, and we thought the best way to do it is to just leave it up to the families.