Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.