I'm going to go and fight for this city Freddy, and I can't have everybody in Washington vote for everything I'd like. |
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge. |
If the president comes we'll be happy to welcome him like everybody else that comes to this city. |
If there are questions about that to be raised, you may rest assured, I will be raising them. |
If there is a strike, the city and the MTA will certainly take all legal actions possible to try to force the workers back, ... to have the appropriate penalties for breaking the law and endangering the public, and the city will sue to get back whatever expenses it loses. |
If we distributed money to the military this way, our troops in Iraq would have bows and arrows to fight with, |
If we stay the course, ... the best days of your city and this school system are yet to come. |
if you want to be safe, I would argue New York is the place that you want to go. |
In a fundamental way we are all brothers and sisters, |
In our darkest hour, he was a ray of hope, a voice of reassurance to millions, ... He made us all proud, and he reminded the world that New Yorkers don't quit. |
In the end, it is Albany and the labor unions that we have to depend on, |
In the past a leader was a boss. Today?s leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. |
Investing in solutions and reducing reliance on expensive shelter is good for our neighborhoods, taxpayers, and, most importantly, homeless New Yorkers, |
It gives you a good visual, ... You can put a picture in the paper of a big cruise ship. We can talk about the food on a cruise ship. |
It is in them that the spirit of our city lives on, |