Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.