To Zohran, I believe you have been a divisive force in New York, and I believe that’s toxic energy for New York. It’s with the Sunni Muslims when you say decriminalize prostitution, which is haram.

Campaign gets serious today. New Yorkers start to focus.

What he is doing is the oldest, dirtiest political trick in the book: divide people.

Don’t tell me New Yorkers are Islamophobic. They’re not.

Christopher Columbus is considered by many a saint in the Italian-American community and you give it the finger? You offend me as an Italian-American and the Italian-American community.

New Yorkers are not Islamophobic.

Today he’s playing the victim, but in reality he is the offender. What he has done has so offended the Jewish community in this city, I have never seen anything like it.

I didn’t take the remark serious at the time, of course I think it’s an offensive comment, period. But it did not come out of my mouth, that’s the point.

The issue is you have no experience.

I’ve had a lot of dealings with President Trump, and there’s only one way to deal with him. He puts his finger in your chest, and you have to put your finger right back in his chest.

What a shocker. Once he takes a position, he'll change it anyway.