but the first time a town clerk loses an election after my figures show him winning, I will be over the hill and a bum." Longtime associate George Birnbaum: "I would always say, 'Arthur, do you realize how much we're changing history?' He would say, 'I don't know how much we're changing history; we're touching history." In 2011, in one of his last public speeches, he said: "I wanted to change the world. I did this. I made it worse." References External links Romanian journalist Cristi Şuţu photo of Finkelstein (2011 Lecture in Prague by Finkelstein) (News report in Hungarian concerning Finkelstein and Viktor Orbán) 1945 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American Jews American political consultants American libertarians Businesspeople from Brooklyn Columbia University alumni People from East New York, Brooklyn American LGBT businesspeople LGBT Jews LGBT people from New York (state) LGBT people from Massachusetts Massachusetts Republicans Queens College, City University of New York alumni New York (state) Republicans Pollsters People from Irvington, New York People from Levittown, New York Deaths from lung cancer in Massachusetts Forest Hills High School (New York) alumni 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people