I generally believe in the runoff system, |
I like Fernando Ferrer, but he and I have a fundamentally different view of where to take this city and our policies reflect it. |
I think that Giuliani and Bratton deserve a lot of credit for changing the mind-set in the city that crime is an insoluble problem. I like the idea how he used technology to help us level the playing field with criminals, ... He picked good people and held them accountable. |
I was lied to then and I regret it. |
I'm a middle class guy, I'm not wealthy. As a matter of fact, my mother frequently said, 'you can't be too rich or too thin'(laughter as he looks at himself)..well, we've had four years of too rich...get ready for four years of too thin. |
I'm ready to do anything that Freddy [Ferrer] asks, |
I've talked a lot about eliminating waste in government, and it would be a waste to still have an election. |
isn't a bold idea, it is a bad idea. |
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. |
It's crazy. It makes no sense, as far as the number of people protected. No matter how you slice it, this is a bad way of doing it. |
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money, |
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on. |
Look - this is a philosophical difference some of us have in this party. I want to drive this party to a place we can win, not only in this election but the elections of 2006 and 2008. I'm tired of losing. |
Look, I can't say the polls mean nothing when I'm in fourth and then think they're a big deal when I'm in second, but I'm clearly moving up while the others aren't. So, that's got to be a good sign in any campaign. |
Look, I'm not the smartest kid on the block, |