Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

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