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A lot of that had to do with his belief that this organization represents this city. We played with the kind of pride New Yorkers have.

It was conceived as a one-year thing, but it proved so popular with New Yorkers and visitors that it's continued.

It is quite sad to hear that three New Yorkers were competing for the commission. What about local artists?

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.

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.

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.

It's ridiculous that so many New Yorkers are leaving for Florida to escape the estate tax.

Con Edison is committed to its 13,200 employees, who serve nine million New Yorkers in one of the most diverse communities in the world. We appreciate Diversity Inc 's recognition of the company's success in developing a workforce that reflects the neighborhoods we serve in New York City and Westchester County.

Concorde's return is symbolic of how all New Yorkers feel about rebuilding this great city. I am personally proud to welcome Concorde back to New York.

Every block of the city is a quintessential definition of the highly diversified New York food cultue. Each area is divided as a small village of its own unique flavors and history. The variety of cuisine that the city provides is almost infinite. Starting from Tribeca, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Lower East Side, Meat Packing district, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramecy Park, Theater, Lincoln Center, Upper East Side, Harlem, The Bronx, Brooklyn to Queens; New York City will never fail to surprise us with its treasure of cuisines. The answer is in the pride New Yorkers take in saying "ONLY IN NEW YORK

The best advice for New Yorkers and donors everywhere is to direct their donations only to organizations that they know and trust,

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.

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.

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,

It's definitely worse than usual but nobody is better than New Yorkers at getting hard to get reservations.

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

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?

Nothing gets New Yorkers more angry then when diplomats think they can live by different rules than the rest of us.

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

Six years ago, she asked New Yorkers to take a chance on her. Over that time period, she has proven herself to be a good senator and an effective advocate for the people of this state.

I'm grateful to Bank of America, a great New York institution, for the opportunity to judge a contest that will showcase the enthusiasm and passion that New Yorkers have for another legendary New York institution, the Yankees.

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.

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

I know what can happen in New York and all of the trauma that comes from the problem with homeland security and the fact that we don't have enough money to defend ourselves the way New Yorkers need to.

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

In our darkest hour, he was a ray of hope, a voice of reassurance to millions, ... He made us all proud, and he reminded the world that New Yorkers don't quit.

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.

I love the idea of New Yorkers being able to move blocks and blocks through Manhattan without encountering a single car, bus or truck,

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

In the official memorial, New Yorkers don't want to differentiate among the dead.

In terms of scorekeeping, I think the mayor did well. He was firm, feisty, aggressive, and he showed a side of him that New Yorkers might want to see more of.

I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Serving the head or the tail or the tongue certainly doesn't make me a pioneer in the real world-although maybe, in New York, in a fancy restaurant, I was a bit of one.

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.

He's an easy target. New Yorkers are centrist by nature. One has to presume Senator Clinton is a candidate for president and the strategic imperative here (in 2006) is to pile up big numbers.

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.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

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.

This holiday card is a great way to inextricably link the hearts of New Yorkers with those of the people in New Orleans. The effort will have a great impact on the residents of Louisiana, as people in the affected areas see how much their friends up north care about them. It's a great gesture and we're proud to be a part of it.

The current formula is distributed as pork barrel, the same amount to everybody, no matter what, and it doesn't make sense, ... New Yorkers are not very pleased about being No. 1, but if we are No. 1 in the risk/threat/vulnerability category, we clearly should get the resources so that we can be prepared.

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

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.

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.