(15 quotes found)
“What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,”
Fred Siegel
“He wasn't on top of this. He sort of farmed this out and he didn't stay on top of it.”
“[The tabloids would relish turning a wonkish and dull re-election campaign into something vastly entertaining.] You know how the papers are going to love this, two harridans mixing it up, ... This could be the equivalent of mud wrestling for fraternity boys.”
“It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,”
“The dogs love it here,”
“The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.”
“Before Giuliani, New York politics had been mostly about striking caring poses in the course of paying off interest groups, ... Liberal mayors like Lindsay and Dinkins spoke endlessly of what the city owed the poor, but they delivered rising rates of crime and welfare. Theirs was the sovereignty of words over deeds.”
“Under Giuliani, ... once again became the defining credo of a city whose policies and politics had been based on the assumption that the pathological was routine.”
“Instead of doing a mass communications effort, we're really going after the niches. We talk to those interested in discreet ways that are relevant to those individuals.”
“The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, ... Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.”
