We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

The average amount of funding that comes from government among our peer group of cities is 77 percent. It's 100 percent in Las Vegas. Orange County is at about 50 percent.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body

[Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, appeared at several black churches yesterday morning and issued a statement calling the Bush administration's response] shocking, inadequate and indefensible. ... we have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.