I will be the mayor for every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for Governor Cuomo or felt too disillusioned by a long-broken political system to vote at all.

We’re going to use the courts; we’re going to use the bully pulpit; we’re going to use every tool at our disposal to stand up for our city.

Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up!

Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, 'It always seems impossible until it is done.' My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.

I look forward to having those conversations and to making clear that if there is ever anything to be spoken about that could benefit the people of the city, I am ready and willing to speak to anyone about it.

This has nothing to do a safety, it has to do with intimidation.

Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back…

I call myself a democratic socialist, in many ways inspired by the words of Dr. King from decades ago. ‘Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, there has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this…

I’m not worried at all.

I continue to be confident, but I never let that confidence become complacency.