12/05/2012
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"The city just feels threatening, out of control, and in crisis."
"I know what needs to be done and I know how to do it. Experience matters. Leading New York City in the midst of a crisis is not the time or the place for on-the-job training."
"Did I make mistakes, sometimes painfully? Definitely."
"These conditions exist not as an act of God, but rather as an act of our political leaders, or more precisely, the lack of intelligent action by many of our political leaders."