NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

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.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

Fundamental rights are for everyone and have to be respected by everyone. But we can't be naïve in dealing with those who are abusing the principles protecting fundamental rights.