“You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I...” — Sal Albanese Quote

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.