After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.