It gives them something to hope for. It gives them something to believe in.

If you think of your teammate first and yourself second, that's an important thing that the Knicks today and the Knicks in the past demonstrate.

He is the president of the United States but at the NBA final, if he attends, he’s second fiddle.

The center of attention will be the Knicks and whoever the team is.

Quite frankly, as I said, I don’t give a shit what he does.

You know something? For ten months when I was running for president, you ignored me. You pretended I didn't exist. Suddenly, I started to do better, and you want to debate every day. It’s ridiculous.

We were not told about Rodney King being hit 56 times in 81 seconds with batons. We saw it with our own eyes. It was on video. So we saw four police beating Rodney King. It was clear-cut. 56 times in 81 seconds.

Those who have more should pay more; in other words, the progressive nature of the system.

I think you can have growth and equity. I think growth you get, in part, through the lower rates, but also, in part, from clearing out the code of all of this underbrush that prevents the economy from growing because it subsidizes one…

You could take a $1 gasoline tax or you could take a carbon tax and use all that money to reduce those employment taxes.

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, 'Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.'

In terms of the middle class, we need good-paying jobs, more good-paying jobs.

Equal incomes should pay equal taxes, not somebody has the same income, and next door somebody is using loopholes to reduce their tax rate.

The income-tax system is unfair (equal incomes don't pay equal tax), inefficient (the market knows better where to put capital than do members of the Finance or Ways and Means Committees), and overly complex (few people fill out their own…

the point is that we should tax less those things we like, such as wages, and tax more those things which are bad for us or dangerous, such as pollution.

Yes. You want the economy to grow, and you want everybody to benefit from that.

comprehensive tax reform is imperative due to the way the corporate and individual tax codes are intertwined.

I believe the ideal income tax system is a system that provides the greatest number of people the lowest rate.

You need a President who is going to put his prestige and clout on the line to drive things through when the inevitable obstacles appear.

I think the way to do that is with the Earned Income Tax Credit. I think the President's proposal on the second earner credit is pretty interesting.

I think about what you said, Senator Packwood, that President Reagan was so critical in tamping down the opposition among Republicans in the House.

If you cannot bridge that gap, then spend some time doing something else.

I think presidential leadership is essential.

Senator Bill Bradley, at the time, said that it was the best expression of community that he knew, the Social Security system.