Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

People perish not because of lack of faith

If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.