I know more than anyone, our work is always far from done when it comes to protecting people because one crime, one shooting, one murder is one too many.

there’s no way in hell

That’s why our one time $3 billion inflation rebate is now a $2 billion inflation rebate, cutting a program that I believe in, but also trying to be cognizant of the fact that we may need that money for future challenges.

I know we had some instinct that this would happen, something would happen.

I’ve spoken to hundreds of business leaders saying, ‘Listen, nothing is going to happen to this city without me being aware of it and involved in it.’ So don’t talk about packing up and leaving and all these other overreactions.

I’m focused on affordability and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that.

You have a lot of healing to do with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it.

Don’t panic, everybody. Let the process play out, let the voters decide and then we’ll deal with it.

I’ve become the therapist in chief, it seems. So I’m saying to everybody, ‘We’re going be okay.’ Maybe it’s the mom in me. I know how to calm down situations and we’ll get through this.

So, we’re slowing things down.

We cannot accomplish what those objectives were back in before I became governor in a time frame that’s not going to hurt ratepayers.

I would actually expect a different analysis from the press on how we have handled this versus what you witnessed probably over decades here in Albany, so I’m proud of that.