My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

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.

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

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 can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Mental –ill health is delusion.

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.

Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.