My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my 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.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Silence is a giver

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.