Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

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.

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.

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

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