Fernando Ferrer Quotes on Cities (12 Quotes)

He shares my conviction for standing up for the most vulnerable, ... which here in New York means building a city that works for everyone.

That's the most important thing juxtaposing our positive vision for the city against Mike Bloomberg, ... He shouldn't profit from this in the least.

This city is becoming unaffordable for working and middle class people.

We owe it to people all over the city to debate in all five boroughs and on specific topics.

supported the party and the president whose policies have hurt this city.

This isn't about getting into an argument with my Democratic colleagues our argument is with Mike Bloomberg. Our argument is a fundamental difference with the way we look at this city as Democrats and the way he looks at this city.

Gracias, New York ... Take heart. A new city is rising - our time is now.

No threat against residents of this city should ever be treated lightly. It's the job of the mayor and the police commissioner to tell us exactly what led them to sound the alarm.

There has to be a new bond, a new promise, a new covenant, with working people in this city that tells them we honor your work, that in New York, if you work hard and do right, the reward should be the tools you need to have to build a good life right here in this city.

He's put tens of millions of dollars on the air trying to persuade people that he's a nonpartisan kind of guy. But when you support George W. Bush, when you support a conservative Republican Congress, when you support George Pataki -- all of whose policies have been hurting this city, all 8.1 million of us -- he is in no way a Democrat.

We have an obligation to the people of this city.

We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.