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We’re proud of that for a number of reasons. One, it is a policy designed to keep New Yorkers safe.

We will not be threatened to leave so many of the New Yorkers, who call this city home, prey to these kinds of cruel policies.

Our laws and our values are not bargaining chips.

You have a failed reality TV star who wants to be famous.

I’m not going to do any analysis of the president’s fandom.

You know, if the president comes to watch the Knicks, I’ll leave the president to watch the Knicks as he wants to watch the Knicks.

We're almost to the finish line.

He is an entertainer and that's what he's doing is entertaining.

There's more work to do.

I haven't always got it right.

He is an entertainer and that’s what he’s doing is entertaining.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people.

I'm eager to see what comes from COGE. If the commission reflects a wide range of perspectives, and doesn't rule out approaches that have worked well elsewhere on ideological or partisan grounds, this commission could do an enormous amount…

...focus on actually delivering efficiency instead of serving as a byword for cutting services.

The single most important thing we can do to address our city’s homelessness crisis is to rapidly expand emergency housing and shelter with supportive services.

We can’t keep moving people from place to place, and calling that progress.

We have twice as many homeless people in Seattle as we do shelter beds.

My COGE would focus on actually delivering efficiency instead of serving as a byword for cutting services.

And yet, Elon Musk took that language and used it to cut as many jobs that were as critical as possible for so many of the neediest people across the country and across the world.

Government efficiency, these are words that somehow have been understood as if they are Republican priorities when in fact they are the priorities of anyone who believes in the public sector.

We are beginning to turn things around, but the bottom line is, I'm not finished.

Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100% of those proceeds and that's an action the state of California can take. It's an action we look forward to taking.

Restoring faith in government starts with proving government can actually deliver.

For too long, bureaucracy has stood in the way of delivering the housing, transit, child care and public services our city needs.