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Tree killing is arborcide.
I want to come back as me.
Tone can be as important as text.
Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
The Republicans are coming - make nice.
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.