Top 29 Quotes by Joe Lhota

I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.

Government should steer, not row.