I'm battling a Republican mayor who has no vision of where he wants to take this city, doesn't have any new ideas.

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,

She was always a leader. I'm a Republican and if I was in that district I would vote for her.

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

[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.