My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

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.

[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.

To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

Television wasn't prestigious.

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

We're here on Earth to fart around