Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.