"Pursue the ideal but have to live in the real."
"You can’t have a socialist state in a capitalist nation. If New York became a socialist economy, everything is free."
"The far-left has become the Democratic Socialists of America. They basically preach a socialist economic theory: free transportation, free education, free housing, and tax the rich."
"You have to be idealistic, but you have to be realistic."
"If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have resigned."
"shouldn’t have been detained in the first place"
"In my first 30 days, I will take every homeless person off the trains and the subway stations and get them the help they need."
"This is lawfare and election interference plain and simple."
"medical malpractice"
"They call it democracy. Mayor Adams can run as an independent if he chooses."
"I want you to know directly from me that I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. That's not who I am."