Fernando Ferrer Quotations

We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.

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

should be proud of the race he ran.

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.

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.

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

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

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?'

forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.

It comes down to two debates. It's too bad that for the last six or seven weeks, since I became the Democratic nominee, I've been having to debate tens of millions of dollars of radio and television ads and his multimillion-dollar spin machine.

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.

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

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

Look, I'm not running to be the mayor of the fourth grade. I'm running to be the mayor of all the grades.

Look, Democrats believe in certain things. And our problem is not that we're not the party of ideas. Our problem is when we forget our ideals, ... That's when we cease being Democrats.

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.

You know this city will track you down if you owe it a parking ticket, there's no reason why we can't track all of our students,

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

We are concerned about the same kinds of people.

We are concerned about the same kind of people. The only conversation we are having is about giving all workers in this city the right to decent health care.

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,

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.

Why does he spend like a drunken sailor? ... Our votes are not for sale! The people of this city are too smart, too ethical.

we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.

This team has made us all proud, ... On the field and off the field, they represented the Bronx and New York City well.

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.

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!

Fasten your seat belts. The party is unified.

see the possibilities of a life filled with optimism and purpose.

Our data suggests that Latino turnout will be as strong as it was last time.

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

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.

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

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

It's time for the people to weigh in.

The use of city-owned lots for gardens was always temporary. Now, some of this space is urgently needed so we can continue the stabilization and revival of our neighborhoods.

After the pundits, the pollsters, the press . . . it is appropriately in the hands of the people, so let them decide.

Excuse me a second. You gave him money, Mike. And you can't have it both ways.

I'm looking into all of your faces and I know you, ... We come from the same place.

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,

I proudly accept the nomination of the Democratic Party to be mayor,

He's put tens of millions of dollars on the air trying to persuade people that he's a nonpartisan kind of guy. But when you support George W. Bush, when you support a conservative Republican Congress, when you support George Pataki -- all of whose policies have been hurting this city, all 8.1 million of us -- he is in no way a Democrat.

honest leadership that doesn't waver or blow with the wind.

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

The mayor just doesn't get it, so he doesn't have to do anything about it.

The mayor frequently tries to change the subject when he is caught.