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" It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. "

" 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. "

" In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. "

" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "

" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "

" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "

" My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me. "

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" It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights. "

" The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. "

" The art of creation is older than the art of killing. "

" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "

" 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. "

" Tone can be as important as text. "

" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "

" Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. "

" The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. "

" 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. "

" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "

" I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns. "

" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "

" I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them. "

" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "

" There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. "

" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "

" 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. "