Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

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.

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.

Be willing to pass through a short term pain so that you can come out with a long term gain. Don't fear the horrible waves of the waters

If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

Love is an equation, a me and a you derives a we.

It's just, it's fun to stay in the game.