We used to be the crime capital and now we're the safest large city in America. We used to be the welfare capital of America and now we're seen as the city that has moved more people off welfare, has moved more people to work from welfare, of any city in America, |
We're gaining jobs ahead of America, |
We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks, |
We're going to help the people of Rockaway, ... They deserve it. They're very strong and good people. We're going to help the Dominican community. It's one of our strong and most important communities in the city. We're all going to pull together and we're going to be even stronger. |
We're going to try to return the city as much as possible to normal activity tomorrow, ... I don't think we can call it normal activity, but kind of approach it as much as possible. |
We're obviously extremely disappointed that we haven't been able to recover anyone alive, |
We've got to go into an absolute new revolutionary era in the sharing of information, |
What I like to do on New Year's day is go to four or five or six places where people who are working for New York City are working, just to thank them, |
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it, ... There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them. |
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. |
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change, ... The era of fear has had a long enough reign. |
You have less of a chance of being murdered, mugged, beaten or robbed here than just about any place in any large city in Texas. |
You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target. |
You look at the promise that ethanol gives us. We'd want to look at what's the right way to do it. Do you do it with tax credits, do you do it with incentives, do you do it with subsidies? But we sure as heck want to jump-start that. |