Raymond Kelly quotes:

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.

I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.

I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.