There are two cities when there's a 50% dropout rate, when one out of five New Yorkers lives in poverty. |
There has to be a new bond, a new promise, a new covenant, with working people in this city that tells them we honor your work, that in New York, if you work hard and do right, the reward should be the tools you need to have to build a good life right here in this city. |
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, |