Anthony Weiner Quotes

• 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?

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• The picture was of me, and I sent it.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

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

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

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

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

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

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

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

  Anthony Weiner

• I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That’s what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama’s job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

  Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Anthony Weiner

Anthony Weiner (29)

Birth:	4th September, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Anthony David Weiner was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American politician and former U.S. representative who served New York's 9th congressional district from January 1999 until June 2011. A member of the Democratic party, he won seven terms, never receiving less than 59% of the vote. Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011, due to a sexting scandal. He attended public schools and graduated from the SUNY Plattsburgh in 1985 with a B.A. in political science. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of New York City in the 2005 and 2013 New York City mayoral elections.

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