I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.