“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

Our immigrant workers have and will always be the backbone of [the city’s] workforce. By informing workers of their rights and ensuring all workplaces are safe workplaces, our city benefits.

Every deportation is a pink slip for an American restaurant. The industry depends on immigrants — from dishwashers to chefs to owners — and without them, it collapses.

I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman, but I don’t want [Chinese President] Xi Jinping or [Vladimir] Putin or the ayatollah in Iran to be, either. And these are hard men… we’re in the middle of a prison riot in Ukraine, and [Biden national security adviser Jake] Sullivan would go over there and try to quote Socrates … instead of showing force.

I really think the secret to being loved is to love. And the secret to being interesting is to be interested. And the secret to have others find beauty in you is to find beauty in others. And the secret to having a friend is being a friend.

While Donald Trump’s donor billionaires think they have the money to buy this election, we have a movement of the masses,

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Think about our ecological footprint. I think the … key thing is to realize that every day on this planet, you make a difference, and if you start thinking about the consequences of the small choices you make — What you buy? Where did it come from? How was it made? Was there child-slave labour [involved]? Did it help the environment? Would you eat it if it didn’t involve cruelty to animals? — you start thinking like that, and millions of people around the world thinking like that, then we start to get the kind of world that we cannot be too embarrassed to leave to our children.

Creativity is something we do every day. It’s speaking to someone and using that life-to-life dialogue, sharing your experiences and what you’ve learned.