“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“To think that it’s going to cost a billion dollars — I mean, that’s a thousand millions.”
“the nation's top law enforcement official asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops …. Utterly stupid, morally wrong.”

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On the recordOctober 26, 2011
I saw Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor. He was saying these are 100-year-old systems in Chicago. Do we really think that Pittsburgh and Cleveland and Akron and Youngstown and Toledo have $1 billion to go make these investments? But if we say collectively as a country we're going to rebuild the country and that right now we're going to use the power that we have to go out and get the money and make these investments and put all these people back to work, they'll be working for a decade.
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