The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.
We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,
We're going to help the people of Rockaway, ... They deserve it. They're very strong and good people. We're going to help the Dominican community. It's one of our strong and most important communities in the city. We're all going to pull together and we're going to be even stronger.
Now we understand much more clearly, ... why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
I have got a lot of places to go and a lot of people to talk to and a long process of figuring out whether it makes sense to run for President in 2008. I don't know the answer to that yet.
I believe the people of the city of New York were selected as the people of the year, because of the very brave and heroic way in which they responded from the first moment to the worst attack on the United States ever in our history.
Certainly if I were to run, I would remind people of the fact that not only have I lived in the state of New York most of my life, but that I have worked in many of the communities in upstate New York,
What I like to do on New Year's day is go to four or five or six places where people who are working for New York City are working, just to thank them,
I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,
The part I will not tolerate is people violating the law, whether you are the mayor, a policeman, fireman or ordinary citizen. You don't get to punch New York City police officers, ... For that you go to jail.
There are indications that at least one of the people involved in this that was arrested was yesterday expressing support for what happened in Israel and was gratified that it had occurred,
The reason for that is that the armory is too small to deal with the number of people who have so far registered, ... So far we have 3,735 families who have registered. We expect there are going to be more.
We are still within that time frame, ... and the experts say there are still situations in which people have survived for this length of time.
I've also been mayor in a city that's five to one Democrats over Republicans. And I think I've been able to accomplish as much as any other mayor in the city, some people believe a lot more,
This is a business. People get paid to take other people's garbage. If they take the garbage, they get a lot of money for it. If they don't want the garbage or the money, that's fine.
If people had stayed in their apartments, we might have come away without serious injuries,