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I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction. -- Marc Rich
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. -- Jerry A. Webman
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies. -- Felix Rohatyn
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. -- Ruben Blades
My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively. -- Joan Cusack
I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York. -- George Pataki
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital. -- Ron Chernow
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else. -- Walter Kirn
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. -- Ann Coulter
As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. -- Reid Scott
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes. -- Christine Quinn
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. -- Eliot Spitzer
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn. -- Noreena Hertz
The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. -- Joe Conason
But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country. -- Mark Leibovich
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. -- Glenn Greenwald
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. -- A. J. Liebling
Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics. -- Donna Brazile
New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble. -- John Lindsay

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