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" There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon. "
Joe Lhota
Anybody
No Reason
Weapon
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" I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me. "
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" I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt. "
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" Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York. "
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" I was the first one in my family to go to college. "
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" Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you. "
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" I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people. "
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" I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old. "
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Years
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" The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. "
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" The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization, and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y. "
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" We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994. "
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New
Changes
York
" Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different. "
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" My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did. "
Joe Lhota
American Dream
Father
Memories
" Government should steer, not row. "
Joe Lhota
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" My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver. "
Joe Lhota
City
Cop
Father
" I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA. "
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Son
Born
" I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them. "
Joe Lhota
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Think
Know
" Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life. "
Joe Lhota
You
Think
Life
" My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone. "
Joe Lhota
Quality
Worst
Talk
" What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers. "
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Work
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" In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on. "
Joe Lhota
Government
City
Vote
" There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that. "
Joe Lhota
Love
Equal
Administration
" I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani. But I am also not Rudy Giuliani. "
Joe Lhota
Cannot
Also
Separated
" I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time. "
Joe Lhota
Home
School
Alone
" My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading. "
Joe Lhota
Always
Book
Reading