Joe Lhota Quotes

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Joe Lhota

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 7, 1954

This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

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I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

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I don't think the Port Authority does a good enough job in anything that they do, quite honestly, but clearly in the area of security. Those cops get paid more than N.Y.P.D. cops, and quite honestly - I know I'm going to get into trouble for saying this - they're nothing more than mall cops.

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My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

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I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Joe Lhota

I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

Joe Lhota

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

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There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

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I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

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I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.

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Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

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In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

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The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

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I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

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My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

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I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

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I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

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Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

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Government should steer, not row.

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