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“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?”

“If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.”

Ifs Should States Kids New York Citizens Best Education

Author:Carl Paladino

“I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.”

Years States Bigs New York Areas Fairs Following New York State

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.”

Years Littles States United Rooms United States New York Surprise Spokes Southern Trading Attorney Insiders Insider Trading

Author:Preet Bharara

“We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.”

States New York Investigation County New York State

Author:Michael Baden

“New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.”

Thinking States Interest United United States New York Position Particular Pursuit Belonging

Author:James F. Cooper

“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.”

States Would Be United Views United States Streets New York Standards Rivers Towns Reasonable Riverside

Author:Paul Goldberger

“Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.”

Should Has Beens States Today United United States New York Projects Weakness Vote Profound Heavy Lifts Seats Diplomacy Council Diplomats Affirmative Announcements Recruit

Author:Tom Lantos

“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.”

People Stills States United Cities United States New York Areas Regard West Wave Genuine Shore New York City Eastern Frontiers Foreigners

Book:Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

Source: Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

“If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.”

Ifs Doe States Light Attention New York Higher Enlightenment West South East Perceive California Enlightened Fluid Bonding East And West

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

“New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.”

Mind Has Beens Stills States Home Wonder New York Sanity Scar Resurrection

Author:Muriel Spark

“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?”

People Firsts Different Hard States Lasts Faces Courses Next White Happened New York First Time England Mad Clinton Drunk Next Time Last Words Unreal Blair Euphoria Good Words New Faces

Author:Doris Lessing

“Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.”

Mind States Lines Talking New York Rivers Hollywood Folks Flight Beach Holiday Hops Neighborhood Get Away State Of Mind Miami Greyhounds New York State Miami Beach Hudson River

Author:Billy Joel

“Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.”

“I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.”

Ifs States New York South Parks Permit Colleagues Concealed Dakota Central Park South Dakota Concealed Carry

Author:John Thune