For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

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.

Nalaman kong habang lumalaki ka, maraming beses kang madadapa. Bumangon ka man ulit o hindi, magpapatuloy ang buhay, iikot ang mundo, at mauubos ang oras.

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.

A bird who wants to fly high will never frighten of sky

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.