Gifford Miller Quotes (20 Quotes)

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,

One Democrat for mayor took action to stop the stadium.

The mayor won an enormous political victory. But since he didn't lay out specific grand plans I still think if he wants to implement new grand plans he's going to have to convince people they're a good idea - because people certainly didn't endorse those new grand plans during this election.

We've complied with every rule and regulation of the Campaign Finance Board, and we've documented and disclosed every nickel that we've spent x2014 unlike this mayor.

You never know until people vote. It's discouraging to see the polls where they are. But we're still holding out hope.

I think the first thing we have to do is grieve, ... We lost a colleague and a friend. And I think all the members of the council, our staff and his staff, have to join with the members of his family and the rest of the city in mourning his loss. It's a terrible, terrible loss.

Miller was asked about the defections at the conclusion of an unrelated press conference. I made my decision in the mayor's race, ... We're not here to talk about the mayor's race.

We can do a lot better in this city. We need leadership that's going to stand up and fight for urban areas across this country.

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

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

Clearly when you're going to run against someone's that's spending 100 million, you're going to have to raise money to be competitive, and I think I've done that, ... I don't worry or focus on what my opponents are doing I focus on what needs to be done to get my message out of real accomplishments, of real results for real New Yorkers.

What I've learned from working in New York politics is that the race is either really obvious, or too close to call, ... And this race is too close to call.

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.

It is not pandering to do something that people want, ... This is a responsible step to give a little relief to New Yorkers, and that is known as good government.

We need to focus on schools the overcrowding issues that are a big problem here in Queens, and the lack of supplies and teachers, but also take responsibility for the children outside the public school system, ... We need to make nurses available for parochial schools, yeshivas and other secular institutions, as well as provide funding for computers and software.

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.

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

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

I'm tired of stopping a Republican mayor from doing the wrong thing. I want a mayor who's going to do the right thing, and that mayor is Freddy Ferrer.

From passing the city's first earned income tax credit to launching the structural unemployment initiative, Gifford has been a forceful advocate in getting results for the most vulnerable New Yorkers,