Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

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.

Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.

I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the [Donald] Trump campaign.

I learned to write by writing.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.