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New York is tough on lonely people.

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

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.

New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.