I will be the mayor for every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for Governor Cuomo, or felt too disillusioned by a long-broken political system to vote at all. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
It's not that we must convince people to believe in democracy as a notion or as a political aspiration; it's that we have to convince them of its resonance in their lives. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
We need a politics that is direct, that speaks to people's own lives. If I tell you that I'm going to freeze your rent,… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I will use every form of transit, and I want to make sure that they are all affordable in New York City, and that's… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I will unabashedly stand up for our sanctuary city policies which have kept New Yorkers safe, and use every tool at the city's disposal… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I think for a long time, it's felt as if the safest place, especially as a Muslim in public life, was to be in the shadows. And yet we see that that safety is all too tenuous. And to allow ourselves to be intimidated is to, in some ways, allow for the continuation of that very kind of politics. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share
The worth of a politics comes from its application to all, and I think part of why so many have lost faith in politics… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
Actually being able to show who you've been over a period of time, the growth, the consistency, all of these things at the same… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
