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Quote of the Day: Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner

Kevin Eckstrom

“Where do you get the morality to judge me? Do you know who judges me? Not you. You don’t get to judge me because you have shown no sign you are superior to me, and you are not my God.”

— New York mayoral candidate Anthony Wiener, defending himself after a customer at at a Brooklyn bakery called Weiner an obscene name and slammed him as “married to an Arab.” He was quoted by Reuters.

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