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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me. "

" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "

" There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. "

" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "

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

" The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. "

" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "

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

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

" We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. "

" 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. "

" The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are. "

" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "

" I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did. "

" Tone can be as important as text. "

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

" When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. "

" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "

" You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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