"If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store."

"Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done."

"In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent."

"What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'"

"I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here."

"Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family."

"One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age."

"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."