We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.