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"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."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."
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"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."
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"When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day."
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."
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"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."
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"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones."
Love

"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time."
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"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."
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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people."
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."
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"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet."
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