We have come too far to go back, my friends.

A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

We have come too far to go back, my friends.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.