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" Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world. "
I Am
Today
Birthday
" Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. "
More
Risks
Worry
" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Canvas
Poetry
People
" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "
Play
Regrets
Good
" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "
Nothing
Suburbs
Lived
" How'm I doing? "
Doing
" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
Back
New
City
" I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns. "
Our
Should
Society
" I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government. "
Nature
Understand
Government
" If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. "
Pot
Rainbow
Tell
" If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many. "
Doubt
Years
Said
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
Stop
Pay
Drinking
" If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist. "
Vote
Me
Psychiatrist
" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "
Me
Like
Fly
" If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy. "
Listen
City
Crazy
" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
Seek
Will
Put
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
Social
Life
Discuss
" I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters. "
Myself
Emotional
Campaign
" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "
First
Know
Windows
" I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary. "
People
Think
Writing
" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
Forever
Being
Love
" I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done. "
My Life
Done
Proud
" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "
Will
President
Confident
" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "
Jewish
Simple
Boy
" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
Give
Get
Type
" I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care. "
Gay
Care
Me
" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
Primitive
Action
Strategist
" In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. "
Life
Better
Clean
" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
Did
Would
Never
" I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done. "
Office
People
Done
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