There should be a special place in hell for the person who profiteers from that. |
This city is becoming unaffordable for working and middle class people. |
This is the most obvious thing in the history of the world, |
This isn't about getting into an argument with my Democratic colleagues; our argument is with Mike Bloomberg. Our argument is a fundamental difference with the way we look at this city as Democrats and the way he looks at this city. |
This obnoxious, repulsive multimillion-dollar spending is bad for democracy, ... You can't buy everyone's vote in New York, and I won't let him! |
This other New York, defined by a shrinking middle class and the expanding poverty of those at the bottom, this other New York cannot live on the platitudes and promises of a mayor who thinks the best argument for re-election is to buy a lot of television and radio time, |
This team has made us all proud, ... On the field and off the field, they represented the Bronx and New York City well. |
to strengthen our local economy. |
trying to help the people of the Bronx reach their full potential. ... I saw the progress made here on these streets, through his leadership. |
Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx. |
We are concerned about the same kind of people. The only conversation we are having is about giving all workers in this city the right to decent health care. |
We are concerned about the same kinds of people. |
We are eager to campaign with President Clinton and just working out the timing, |
We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city. |
We have an obligation to the people of this city. |