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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams

Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.

Lois Aronstein

It's a good demonstration of will for any terrorist outfit to consider. If they knocked out every subway line and all the bus terminals, New Yorkers would leave the house, moaning, and find their way to work. That's our tribe.

Pete Hamill

NYC & Co. is proud to showcase the Louis Armstrong House Museum and we hope New Yorkers and visitors alike will take the opportunity to learn about this brilliant musician and humanitarian.

Cristyne L. Nicholas

I am gratified for the support of my colleagues. I look forward to the vote on Wednesday and to working with them to improve the lives of all New Yorkers.

Christine Quinn

If the Manhattan Institute is against the state takeover of Medicaid costs of county taxpayers and new property tax rebates for homeowners, they are out of step with New Yorkers.

Scott Reif

The Environmental Protection Fund is a national model and it's something New Yorkers should be proud of.

David Miller

New Yorkers have a clear choice: A candidate for governor who hopes he can do a good job protecting the environment, or one who has actually done it. Bill Weld has a proven record of protecting our air and water and preserving open space, and he did it while cutting taxes, balancing budgets and turning an entire economy around for businesses and families.

Andrea Tantaros

Need to be honest with the public. By brushing off a viable political campaign, they fail to give New Yorkers a true choice.

Fred Parker

I certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy. And New Yorkers certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy.

Dan Doctoroff

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Dick Dadey

I am thrilled with today's victory. But this is a win for all New Yorkers. Today's decision means an additional billion dollars of insurance proceeds will be available.

Larry Silverstein

She should tell New Yorkers the truth about her plans, is she committed to New York or is she running for president?

Jeanine Pirro

Putting more of this revenue back into EPF compensates New Yorkers for the permanent conversion of land for development by providing resources for the state to invest in clean water, open space, parks and recycling programs.

Laura Haight

It's a very calm room. We used a lot of texture. We made a very contemporary quilt bedspread. For typical New Yorkers who have tons of newspapers and magazines and telephones and glasses... everything in this house is built like a ship. There's storage behind everything.

Heather Faulding

The mayor has frequently urged us to proceed as quickly as possible, ... I believe that New Yorkers want to see rapid rebuilding and not yet another exercise in planning and re-planning.

Larry Silverstein

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

Realistic toy guns put in jeopardy the lives of New Yorkers, especially children and law enforcement personnel. It's a matter we take quite seriously and would want to look into.

Christine Pritchard

Grateful for the support of New Yorkers who made him their definitive choice to return Democratic values to City Hall.

Jen Bluestein

If you allow the character of a neighborhood to be eroded, the people who live in that neighborhood will leave the city. We can't allow that to happen. Protecting these different neighborhoods, we are providing New Yorkers with a diversity of housing choices.

Amanda M. Burden

New Yorkers now vote for vision, ideas, and skills that bring the city together, and for leaders who appeal to our common public interest instead of the special interests. That's the appeal of Bloomberg; people believe he isn't a typical politician, and that his only priority is a well-run city.

Dick Dadey

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Paul Goodman

I am aware of no CIA official who would have -- or possibly could have -- confirmed the details of the New Yorker's inaccurate account.

Bill Harlow

For six months, we've been hearing -- the check is in the mail, the check is in the mail and the New York delegation worked very, very hard. And today we opened the mailbox and the check is there and we're going to continue to work with this administration to make sure the needs of New Yorkers are met.

Nita Lowey

The governor's action is reckless in its disregard for the health care needs of all New Yorkers.

Jennifer Cunningham

I knew all along that drivers and passengers, as New Yorkers, would work it all out.

Matthew W. Daus

The legal profession volunteers millions of dollars in free legal services to the poor, but lawyers alone cannot meet what should be recognized as a responsibility of government. Without restoration of this critical funding, countless poor and low-income New Yorkers will be unable to protect important legal rights.

Vincent Buzard

It's great to be able to connect to upstate New Yorkers and to talk to them about the concerns they have. We have to make sure that Upstate New York has the jobs they need, to make sure that our kids stay in upstate New York and have the ability to live here. We've got to make sure we take care of senior citizens and that the educational system is what we promised.

Jeanine Pirro

From November to December, we were living a retired life. We didn't have anything to do, but we're New Yorkers! Something has to happen - something must go on!

Neerja Pomal

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Sunny Mindel

Unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Steve Tobin

We think that in general terms New Yorkers are adapting, which is not a surprise to us but it's always a good thing to see. New Yorkers do what they have to do to get on with their life and that has definitely been evident this morning in the commute.

Jarrod Bernstein

That's a New York story: New Yorkers helping other New Yorkers in tragedy and distress.

Michael Miller

Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a difference for many New Yorkers, especially those who pay full retail for their drugs. We are fighting to ensure the drug that ends up in your medicine cabinet is the very best one for you.

Lois Aronstein

There is growing concern about the quality of education available in our public schools especially for less fortunate New Yorkers, and there is also greater interest in choice. New York pays top dollar for what tends to be middle-of-the-pack performance ... and they are getting tired of it.

Matthew Maguire

This is a chronic problem that daily impacts all New Yorkers, especially communities of color. It disproportionately impacts the African American and Latino communities.

Donna Lieberman

At the end of the day, a lot of New Yorkers want some relief from the intensity of everything else that's on their air. This is an alternative for them.

Bob Bruno

HEAP is a great program, providing much needed assistance to thousands of New Yorkers every year. Our fear is that, even with the new funds, the program will run out of money this spring and thousands of New Yorkers will find themselves in need of assistance to keep their power on.

Lois Aronstein

Target makes a real difference every day by partnering with leading cultural organizations to support community programs across the country. Through our support of OHNY Weekend 2005, Target is making art and design accessible to more New Yorkers and City visitors.

Laysha Ward

But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if we face off in the future, we'll have an opportunity to make a strong case to New Yorkers about our vision for the city. I hope and I expect that it will not diminish the good relationship we have.

Adolfo Carrión Jr

We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York City. But the time is right for tourists to begin returning to New Orleans, and New Yorkers are always trendsetters.

Cristyne L. Nicholas

I am proud to receive these important endorsements today and look forward to working with the growing list of New Yorkers who know that New Yorkers deserve a full-time Senator fighting for them.

Jeanine Pirro

We'd been watching the storm over the weekend and our feeling was that if there was a direct hit on New Orleans, we'd go to special coverage. When it took that slight veer, we decided New Yorkers would still want the other things we'd planned for today.

John Keefe

I just want to ask our fellow New Yorkers to keep in their thoughts and prayers the firemen, police officers, Con Edison workers, the MTA personnel that are already deployed, ... Donations are greatly needed by the American Red Cross to keep our programs going.

John Seiler

New Yorkers get until midnight April 18 to file their taxes this year.

Kevin Mckeon

You cannot reduce to dollars and cents the losses New Yorkers have suffered from the vicious World Trade Center attack, just as there is no way to put a dollar value on the heroism and determination of our response, ... But to obtain the resources we will need to rebuild and create a better and stronger New York City, we must try to understand in dollar terms, what the attack cost our economy.

Alan G. Hevesi

We welcome ... all New Yorkers to join the Republican Party.

Stephen Minarik

Just as New Yorkers united to recover and rebuild after Sept. 11, we are confident that they will come together again to help build the memorial, which will forever honor the lives lost and acknowledge the generosity of so many.

Gretchen Dykstra

We take our share of heat from the New Yorkers. But we let them know. That's the Red Sox way. We're loud and obnoxious.

Jeff Matthews

We're not relying on celebrity endorsements. We're fighting for everyday New Yorkers, and those are the people whose support matters the most to Freddy.

Jen Bluestein

It's great to be here. A lot of people questioned whether we would be here. But there is one thing you want to know about New Yorkers - we never give up. In just 72 hours, we created a new great plan for our Olympic stadium.

Dan Doctoroff

Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying city streets, parks and other public spaces to count the number of street homeless.

Angela Allen

We want New Yorkers to see the real Hillary and obviously we're looking forward to it.

Howard Wolfson

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

Christyne Nicholas

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Joel Berg

We are confident when the judge hears the evidence, he will find that the bag searches are perfectly constitutional and designed to protect the safety of all New Yorkers and visitors.

Michael Cardozo

From sea to shining sea, Americans give high marks to New Yorkers in general -- and to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in particular -- in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Maurice Carroll

The hop kiln, integral to the drying and processing of the hops for market, is one of the few physical features remaining on the landscape to remind New Yorkers of 'when hop was king' ? in the words of James Fenimore Cooper.

Jay Dilorenzo

This is part of New York, part of the culture here. New Yorkers always try to find a way to deal with things like this. New Yorkers always find a way to overcome.

Chris Reed

Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.

Robert Snyder

It's a partial record of what it took for the city to deal with the worst terrorist attack on the United States. It speaks to the care and concern of the world community for the city and state of New York, and the concern that New Yorkers had for each other.

Sunny Mindel

We're New Yorkers. We get this. Every market has its peculiarities. There is a lot of human maintenance that goes into it. It's what we feel is one of our value-adds ... a competitive edge.

Michael Sokolow

Almost half of New Yorkers expect a terrorist attack this week. But in typical in-your-face New York style, almost no one in the Empire State admits that they are running scared.

Maurice Carroll

This office has, for several months, been conducting an exhaustive investigation, in light of new evidence, to determine the facts, ... All these painstaking steps are necessary if we are to provide answers to the defendants and the victims, their families and all New Yorkers. This investigation will be fair, impartial and complete.

Robert Morgenthau

We need a long- and short-term approach to this crisis, ... New Yorkers are feeling the middle class squeeze at the gas pump, and they will certainly be feeling it this winter.

Joseph Crowley

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

Jane Pauley

I really think this town is ready to embrace this team like they did the one in '86. It's early, but if they keep this going, it's going to be a special season. New Yorkers know when guys are out there busting their butts and playing good baseball. They aren't guys looking to hit the three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to get the headline.

Keith Hernandez

If Patrick Manning wants to run a campaign that takes the side of corporate interests who defrauded regular New Yorkers, that's fine with us. Any time Patrick Manning wants to come over to Eliot Spitzer's house in Columbia County for breakfast, he's more than welcome.

Ryan Toohey

New Yorkers are tough people. They realize that there are certain risks they have to assume, ... I think they also realize that the government is doing everything that we reasonably can do to protect them.

Ray Kelly

Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecting a lot of regular New Yorkers to stop by.

Ira Cohen

The results show my message and what I do for New Yorkers are what people want in this city.

Betsy Gotbaum

We want to create a place that is distinctly New York and yet unlike anything New Yorkers have ever seen before. The response we are looking for should move beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Daniel Doctoroff

The governor is committed to more jobs and more opportunity for New Yorkers. That was the purpose of the trade mission when we announced it nine months ago. It's the purpose today.

David Catalfamo

Were glad to take a step in the right direction as New Yorkers, but we'd like it to apply to all loving couples and families, not just ours.

Amy Zimmerman

We can do better than a mayor who cuts sweetheart deals with developers at a time of a crisis in affordable housing. . .better than a mayor who let 100,000 New Yorkers slip into poverty.

Freddy Ferrer

They can call me the underdog but you know what, New Yorkers love underdogs. Just ask George Pataki.

Rick Lazio

It is simply difficult to understand that anyone could believe that sophisticated terrorists trying to attack the subway system are going to be deterred. The only people being searched are innocent New Yorkers.

Christopher Dunn

New York's the greatest city on earth - who's going to argue with that? But with a mayor who will do something about a 50 percent dropout rate and one in five New Yorkers living in poverty, it could be greater. Who's going to argue with that?

Christy Setzer

We need a kitchen-table agenda that all New Yorkers can understand.

Randy Daniels