When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Since they are advocating for a problem, if there are things that would make the problem disappear, sometimes unknowingly they continue to advocate and they don't embrace the things that would actually solve the problem,

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it, ... There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

This is one of the most tragic days that I can remember in the city,

I understand. I agree with his decision that he had to drop out,