Bars Quote by Samuel J. Tilden

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real…

— Simone de Beauvoir

New York can be any city it wants to be.

— Nipsey Russell

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows…

— Edward Rutherfurd

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks,…

— Chris Noth

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the…

— James F. Cooper

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's…

— John Guare

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital,…

— Ron Chernow

New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry.…

— William Jennings Bryan

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

— Saul Bellow

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city…

— Courtney A. Kemp

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

— Mark Twain