Anthony Weiner Quotes (57 Quotes)


    Huge trouble can come in small packages. All packages, no matter how big or small, should be given the utmost scrutiny before being loaded onto an aircraft.

    I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

    We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

    I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

    It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.


    There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

    Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

    Look, I can't say the polls mean nothing when I'm in fourth and then think they're a big deal when I'm in second, but I'm clearly moving up while the others aren't. So, that's got to be a good sign in any campaign.

    to make this campaign about national security and the fight against terrorism. If that is the case, we have three words for them -- bring it on.

    I've talked a lot about eliminating waste in government, and it would be a waste to still have an election.

    I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

    What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

    Weiner said in a statement last week. ''We must make sure this ruling is enforced to make sure that there is accountability.

    There are still going to be a lot of ups and downs in this campaign for the next week or so, but I'm going to do what I've been doing all along, which is keep talking straight to New Yorkers.

    When Republican Mike Bloomberg talks about how great things are in the city, you notice he never mentions the fact that over 1.7 million New Yorkers are without health insurance,

    The bottom line is that very big trouble can come in a very small package. If we don't think of every possibility, the terrorists will. We have to screen every passenger and every package on every plane.

    I think that Giuliani and Bratton deserve a lot of credit for changing the mind-set in the city that crime is an insoluble problem. I like the idea how he used technology to help us level the playing field with criminals, ... He picked good people and held them accountable.

    the only Democratic proposing a 10 percent tax cut for middle class families.

    Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

    Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

    He's sitting in a ... maximum security cell, while members of the intelligence community, some of which are only tangentially connected to this, are essentially free to say what they want.

    There is a time to campaign and a time to come together. This is the time to put aside my opportunity for a runoff and to step aside,

    Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

    To succeed, we need focus, we need unity and a chance to make our case against him,

    Free speech does not come without equal part responsibility. There is a rise of anti-Semitism that is almost indisputable on college campuses.

    At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

    It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

    Chairman King appears to still be in denial. If Peter King is to tackle this, he needs to gaze into the eyes of his caucus before he starts looking elsewhere.

    All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

    When a man speaking broken English pushed through the crowd yesterday, excitedly asking, Are you the mayor ... From your mouth to God's ears. I'm Anthony Weiner. I'm running for mayor. I hope you vote for me Tuesday.

    It's crazy. It makes no sense, as far as the number of people protected. No matter how you slice it, this is a bad way of doing it.

    Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

    Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

    How can we put more brave astronauts in harm's way solely on NASA's assurance that this time they'll get it right


    There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

    New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

    We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

    We want to have that debate, we want to discuss their shortcomings, and I believe today they're wondering if they made the right decision. If you look at all of the polls, and you look at their record, they clearly are fighting this on losing terrain,

    I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

    Frankly, the firehouses were closed under your watch, they should not have been and they should be opened immediately,

    I'm a middle class guy, I'm not wealthy. As a matter of fact, my mother frequently said, 'you can't be too rich or too thin'(laughter as he looks at himself)..well, we've had four years of too rich...get ready for four years of too thin.

    Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

    More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.


    Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

    We say all the time that ideas trump money, ... This is a way to demonstrate the idea that this is a campaign about ideas ... and to demonstrate that we're the campaign that could.

    I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.

    For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

    I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.


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