“I’ve had successes and I’ve had setbacks. Sometimes, really painful ones. Many of you are at the beginning of your professional public and political careers. You will have successes and setbacks, too. This loss hurts, but please never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it.”

There’s a fashion to see how much you can torture yourself.

All the easy decisions are gone. Everything that we are doing now, every choice that’s left — they’re difficult.

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.