One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

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

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.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other

And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!