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

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.

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

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.