I will keep fighting for the city, no matter what… because I am a New Yorker and fighting for our city is just what I do.

We need the meeting. It’s a first step, but only a first step. We need a serious negotiation.

Too often, insidious forces use local government to advance divisive agendas with little regard for how it hurts everyday New Yorkers.

I know many New Yorkers have yet to feel the full impact of these historic achievements.

Extremism is growing in our politics.

What you have witnessed over the last three years and eight months is a consistent narrative that has been created: The second Black mayor is corrupt, the second Black mayor is incompetent.

Authoritarians rely on the perception of power.

No, I can’t say that.

In order to mask that reality, Donald Trump is trying to take control of the media, using extortion style tactics.

We’ve got to make the right decision. I’ll make the right decision for the city of New York, a city I love.

People started to say, if you comply with authoritarianism, we are going to vote with our pocketbook.

The Trump administration… rely on everyone complying in advance out of fear…. we cannot be scared of this administration.

If someone constantly reports, even when you say otherwise, that you’re leaving the race the next day, you’re leaving the race the next day, you lose your funders and your donors.

Yet what shocked us was not simply that act, but was the fact that we knew that act is taking place every day across this country, oftentimes unseen, unnoticed and unabashed in its cruelty.

One of the key responsibilities in leadership is telling New Yorkers what you deem to be acceptable in the conduct as it pertains to federal government and politics across this country.

It’s outrageous that Donald Trump and his administration and political hacks connected to them continue to violate the law.

And amidst this horror, we have seen the current mayor abdicate that responsibility entirely. This is a position that has been described as having the second-largest bully pulpit in the country.

Everyone should be held in the same laws.