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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How'm I doing? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "