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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' "

" I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. "

" Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! "

" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "

" 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. "