Now we understand much more clearly, ... why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

I believe the people of the city of New York were selected as the people of the year, because of the very brave and heroic way in which they responded from the first moment to the worst attack on the United States ever in our history.

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Anything that happens in any part of the country can happen in New York,

The fact is that both the police and the communities in New York are suffering from the same kind of group blame, group dynamic,

I firmly believe that to represent New York in the Senate you really need to have a great deal of knowledge about our state ... You have to love it -- and you have to have demonstrated that over a long period of time,