Bill de Blasio: “That inequality, that feeling of a few doing very well while so many flipped further behind. That is the defining…”

There is a horrible tendency. When something goes wrong for people in certain quarters, when maybe it’s commentators, maybe it’s politicians, to suggest that we’ve gone back to the 1970s, when it’s anything but.

"I've had my differences with Eric Adams, but I've known him a long time. He was a police officer for 20 years. He understands the law," de Blasio said.

We`re going to run out today. Tomorrow we`re going to run out of what we have now.

"I believe in my heart, and this is from personal experience, that we've got to have maturity to know that just because some prosecutor brings a charge doesn't mean it's true."