More - Fred Siegel Quotes

Before Giuliani, New York politics had been mostly about striking caring poses in the course of paying off interest groups, ... Liberal mayors like Lindsay and Dinkins spoke endlessly of what the city owed the poor, but they delivered rising rates of crime and welfare. Theirs was the sovereignty of words over deeds.

Fred Siegel

 Caring

[The tabloids would relish turning a wonkish and dull re-election campaign into something vastly entertaining.] You know how the papers are going to love this, two harridans mixing it up, ... This could be the equivalent of mud wrestling for fraternity boys.

Fred Siegel

 

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Fred Siegel

 

He wasn't on top of this. He sort of farmed this out and he didn't stay on top of it.

Fred Siegel

 

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Fred Siegel

 Pleasure

The dogs love it here,

Fred Siegel

 Dogs

The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

Fred Siegel

 

Under Giuliani, ... once again became the defining credo of a city whose policies and politics had been based on the assumption that the pathological was routine.

Fred Siegel

 Assumption

Instead of doing a mass communications effort, we're really going after the niches. We talk to those interested in discreet ways that are relevant to those individuals.

Fred Siegel

 

The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, ... Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

Fred Siegel

 Genius