When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.