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"Senators, with your kind permission, I would like to offer you some advice in the political realm.

"Eight years from now, one of you will have had a great success as the President of the United States. And you may want to continue in that office.

"If such be the case, please give me a call -- I have a friend here in New York who is an expert at arranging this kind of thing...."

"Senator Obama, after working to organize a community in the troubled South Side of Chicago, you are looking to move up to Washington DC -- which is, of course, the capital of our nation. It may be an encouragement for you to know that, after working to organize a community in the troubled South Side of Chicago -- St Leo's Catholic Church at 78th and Emerald -- I was able to move up even higher: to no less than New York City, the Capital of the World.

"And, Senator, I'm still here after eight years."

--Cardinal Edward Egan
Archbishop of New York
63rd Al Smith Dinner
New York, 16 October 2008

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