"I want to be accommodating and participate however best represents the city."
"We shouldn't be talking about how we how we can contract it, how we take benefits away from people."
"We have to fight Trump on the cuts and on the terrible priorities that he was kind of putting forward."
"People will protect our democracy."
"As we speak, the overwhelming majority of the American people disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy."
"We are fighting like hell."
"Dictators or wannabe kings fire generals who don't agree with their politics. This isn't a banana republic."
"Then we have a full-blown constitutional crisis and I think it requires some dramatic action in response."
"It's insulting, we have the best police commissioner in the country, Boston's crime levels are at the lowest ever recorded in our history."
"You can't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk basically rob us of our democracy and disrespect the Constitution."
"The overwhelming majority of the American people disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy."
"I can’t recall ever receiving this many calls. People disgusted with what’s going on, and they want us to fight back."
"We are not a sanctuary state. If you come here, there is not housing here, and I think that's been effective in changing the trajectory of [migration to Massachusetts]."
"It means an awful lot for Massachusetts and our economy."
"We should be talking about expanding health care benefits, improving our health care system in this country."
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