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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. "

" How'm I doing? "

" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "