Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."