I am not defunding the police.

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

I would not recognize any state's right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race or religion.

Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together become the agenda we deliver together.

New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change.

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

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 cannot promise that you will always agree with me, but I will never hide from you. If you are hurting, I will try to heal. If you feel misunderstood, I will strive to understand.

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.

The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at 9, but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun

We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know – just as Donald Trump does – that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.

The future is in our hands