Joe Lhota
Joe Lhota
Joseph J. "Joe" Lhota /ˈloʊtə/is an American politician and businessman, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and former deputy mayor of New York City. He was the Republican nominee in his unsuccessful bid for the 2013 election for Mayor of New York City. As of 2015, he is senior vice president, vice dean, and chief of staff at NYU Langone Medical Center...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 October 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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 have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.
Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.
I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.
The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
I was the first one in my family to go to college.
Government should steer, not row.
I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.
We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.
Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.
I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.