"80 million dollars of overpayments in Medicare Advantage"
"President Trump, you're either being lied to or you are lying, because this bill represents... the largest and greatest loss of healthcare in American history."
"It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy, and it strips away healthcare and basic dignity of the American people."
"This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy, and it strips away healthcare and basic dignity of the American people. For what? To give Elon Mus..."
"This bill is a deal with the devil."
"You should be ashamed."
"So many people hate this bill; it’s a great example of how messed up our political system is."
"His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you."
"Ultimately, the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is found in the words of Dr. King decades ago, when he said: call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must..."
"The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported."
"For too long, politicians have pretended that we’re spectators to that crisis of affordability. We’re actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like Mayor Adams has done, or to respond..."
"This entire race was about the question of affordability, and ultimately I have run a campaign that speaks about the tools that city government actually has to deliver that affordability in the wealth..."
"I am a democratic socialist, yes. I started to call myself that after Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for president, when I finally had a language that described how I saw the world, and the way that I ..."
"Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism."
"A Green New Deal will not come from oligarchical guilt but from mass movements."
"we ran a campaign that tried to talk to every New Yorker, whether I could speak their languages or just tried to... and the coalition that came out on Tuesday, reflected the mosaic of these five borou..."
"not to lecture, but to listen."
"we rewrote the rule book by, get this, talking to New Yorkers."