"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then."

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

"Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes."

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

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"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."

"So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare."

"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs."

"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are."

"The people really are what make New York City great."

"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."

"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages."

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"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."