I know we can do better,

[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.

I basically committed two years of my life campaigning for candidates, building relationships and supporting people all over the city.

If we're going to pick somebody to defeat a Republican, we ought to pick somebody who's had success over the last four years in fighting and winning,

Look all we want is some guidance on what the rules are and they seem to be changing the rules in the middle of the process and we would just like to know what the rules are.