Fernando Ferrer Quotes (65 Quotes)

We need the community to channel and focus positive energy on the gulf that has widened because of the shooting, ... We need to improve the relationship between the police and the community.

I'm proud to accept an invitation by the Hispanic Federation to debate later this month, and I call on Mike Bloomberg to accept their invitation as well,

If a citizen were barred for some reason or another from participating in the franchise, some might say, 'Wait a minute, we pay taxes, what are we talking about here'

It was a fight worth getting into. Though of course I ran to win, I knew I could lose, so I ran first and foremost to raise a voice for those without one.

Ferrer campaign aides denied that the party organization, if not its brightest lights, deserted the campaign, as some have asserted. If that happened, we certainly didn't feel it, ... We felt a lot of energy. People make assumptions about party, but a mayor's race is different. It's above party. It's about personality.

For too many New Yorkers, somebody pulled out the treads in the ladder, somebody closed the door and let it slam behind 'em, somebody said, 'I got mine and you go figure out a way to get yours,'

just another liberal Democrat.

New York City's public schools didn't get that much attention. Or else maybe he would have gotten the 23 billion the state owes us for education, ... And all he had to do was make one more trip to get it to Albany.

The former Bronx borough president's proposal on computers for student use came as he detailed how he would spend the additional billions of dollars in financing that state courts have ordered for the city's school system, as a result of a lawsuit filed a decade ago by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity .

the mayor doesn't have the luxury of knowing whether the threat will ultimately be determined to be credible or not.

Freddy has consistently supported the rights of noncitizens to vote but welcomes a healthy debate of the issue before it becomes law.

This is the most obvious thing in the history of the world,

You have supported right-wing politicians, including the chairman of your own campaign, Mike, who voted for that disgraceful piece of legislation.

I think you'll see for the first time in American history two candidates, each representing the major parties of the United States, campaigning extensively in Spanish. It will be a sight to behold.

Mike Bloomberg has had four years to make some changes, and New Yorkers haven't seen much besides skyrocketing rent prices, one out of two kids dropping out of school and a mayor whose idea of a five-borough economic development plan is building a stadium for a wealthy team owner.

Don't depend on a 100 million campaign, ... Come on out and go mano a mano with me.

The simple truth is that the mayor's tax hikes have made it harder for working and middle-class New Yorkers to hold on to their homes, and also harder for other New Yorkers to buy homes.

When future generations take our measure, let them say we understood that we are all of us in this together. Let them say that we stood for opportunity for all, not just those who were born into it. Let them say we stood for fairness for all, not just those with the power to command it. Let them say that New Yorkers in 2005 determined to build a community where we all take care of each other, not one where all people do is take care of themselves. ... Thats the New York I believe in. Thats the New York I want to live in. Thats the New York we can build together.

This obnoxious, repulsive multimillion-dollar spending is bad for democracy, ... You can't buy everyone's vote in New York, and I won't let him

We're here in Harlem. Mike Bloomberg's campaign posters could make it here. Where's Mike

We are eager to campaign with President Clinton and just working out the timing,

I think this is the most indecent thing I have seen in my public life that spans 25 years.

Now, there are some who argue that our party needs to be reinvented to make it more popular. Well, I say, they're dead wrong.

I can't imagine anyone would turn down the opportunity to headline at the Apollo.

I had great hopes for you given your great personal wealth, I believed you would govern from the heart. You didn't. Time for you to step aside, because I will.

Mike Bloomberg's worst nightmare Democrats together, and the beginning of the end of his administration.

Rudy Giuliani in 1997 was despised by the African American community, however, he went to a debate at the Schomburg Research Center with Ruth Messinger. Why are you afraid of going to Harlem and debating.

After you fought so hard for Amadou Diallo, after you went to jail for Amadou Diallo, how can you then turn around and say that you think it was justified

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

trying to help the people of the Bronx reach their full potential. ... I saw the progress made here on these streets, through his leadership.

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.

come back down to reality-land.

The road has been long, my friends, but this journey has been worth it. And we're almost there, because we're about to make history, and in eight weeks we're going to change history.

It's time for the people to weigh in.

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.

While Mike Bloomberg has spent three-and-a-half of his four years ... trying to spend 1.2 billion of our money on a West Side football stadium, between 500,000 and 800,000 New Yorkers ... remain uncovered, including 290,000 children,

If one is running for mayor, it is necessary to answer the difficult questions of each community, and Michael Bloomberg to date does not want to accept it,

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

This other New York, defined by a shrinking middle class and the expanding poverty of those at the bottom, this other New York cannot live on the platitudes and promises of a mayor who thinks the best argument for re-election is to buy a lot of television and radio time,

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.

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

That's why I'll cut their taxes. That's why I'll also provide 167,000 affordable homes and apartments. Those fees, those fines, those penalties do little to help middle-class and working-class people be able to live in their own neighborhoods, to be able to live decently in their own city - to be able to pass on dreams and hope and opportunity to their children, to their families.

It is important to recognize that all the polls are not always correct ... this time we will win through power of our vote,

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

You've said to the press, we're taking our future in our own hands. This is our city and we're gonna make it work for everyone.

I'm perfectly satisfied with our pace of fund-raising and I'll have enough to put ads on the air, conduct a credible field operation and win the election,

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.

our time is now.

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.