AL D'AMATO

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.

You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

I part with them because they believe that their values are the only acceptable set of values and should be imposed by the government.

Can you make me some money?

I helped my cousin get a HUD house. Well, if you didn’t help your cousin, who would you help?

I’m going to come back to you so you can protect your investment.

Little Jappies ….

...a blue blood, a snob

... a fool

Abuse is getting people preferential treatment when they're not entitled to it. Getting them something they're entitled to, fighting for it, that's me, all the way.

The captains of the [political] system become the captives of the system.

Do you know what it takes to get a good piece of legislation passed ... one that everyone agrees on? The egos. The turf battles.... It's incredible.

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

I give special consideration to everybody.

I make sure that New York gets more than its fair share.

If she were a man, I would have knocked her flat. Instead I whispered to her, 'Liz, you are as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.'

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

[Referring to constituent services:] It's not the stuff that makes great news, but it's life and death to the people involved.

The military is afraid to get into this war [on drugs] because it's a tough one.

There is something inherently wrong with having to pay a bank to give you your own money.