"Fred Siegel" is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank which focuses on urban policy and politics. He also serves as a professor of history and the humanities at Cooper Union and is a contributor to numerous publications, including The New York Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth, Tikkun (magazine)/Tikkun, and TELOS (journal)/TELOS.

In the past he has served as the political advisor to several political candidates in New York City, including former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He is the author of several books, including The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life and The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities.

He is the father of writer and editor Harry Siegel.

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It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students.

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The dogs love it here.

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The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

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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.

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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.

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He wasn't on top of this. He sort of farmed this out and he didn't stay on top of it.

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[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.

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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.

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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.

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I think it's an important aspect of life that we be able to have that sense of community. I like to see it happen throughout the country. That songs can be written that celebrate the features that people like most about their town.

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I immediately loved the words.

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