"This is the campaign of working people. This is the campaign of organized labor and this is the campaign that will win in November."
"I know people for whom those things mean very different things."
"I do not want to police speech as the mayor of New York."
"I fight for working people. I fight for the very people who have been priced out of this city."
"His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you."
"The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported."
"This entire race was about the question of affordability, and ultimately I have run a campaign that speaks about the tools that city government actually has to deliver that affordability in the wealth..."
"Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism."
"I am a democratic socialist, yes. I started to call myself that after Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for president, when I finally had a language that described how I saw the world, and the way that I ..."
"For too long, politicians have pretended that we’re spectators to that crisis of affordability. We’re actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like Mayor Adams has done, or to respond..."
"Ultimately, the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is found in the words of Dr. King decades ago, when he said: call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must..."