[Also Monday, the host committee for the Republican National Convention in New York is releasing new TV and radio ads featuring former Mayor Ed Koch and Minnie, a 7,500-pound elephant.] While they're here, make nice, ... Volunteer to show 'em the ropes. They won't know uptown from downtown. They've never ordered pizza by the slice. They don't know from alternate-side-of-the-street parking. |
and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts. |
being attacked for doing what I did. |
But nevertheless, I always believed today as he does, that if the United Nations hadn't been created, we would be creating it. |
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. |
Do you give a youngster drugs? ... And how about a woman who is carrying a fetus, and the fetus will be adversely affected when she takes drugs ... the state should make that legal? I don't think so! |
Eliot is the right guy to change Albany. As attorney general, he demonstrated a real commitment to reforming institutions from Wall Street to Main Street and I look forward to watching him work on reforming state government. |
He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, 'You're not doing it exactly the way I did it,' ... 'You're talking as though it was the four other boroughs against Manhattan.' ... I said 'There are plenty of middle-class people living in Manhattan.' He changed the tone then, so that it became more of a message about the middle class. |
Hey you, ... Move it. It's Tuesday. |
I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not. |
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. |
I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan. |
I wouldn't take him lightly at all, ... Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they have someone who has a record of achievement. |
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. |
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse |