Covering Quote by Tom Hayden

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

— Zephyr Teachout

The politicians in Manhattan are destroying New York City and we don't want those bad policies here in Long Island. We see the devastating…

— George Santos

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

— Richard M. Nixon

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're…

— Carl Paladino

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that…

— Spalding Gray

I think anyone who comes to New York is probably coming into a situation with more attention than they had previously.

— Daniel Jones

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

— Ed Koch

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have…

— Raymond Kelly

It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law.

— Zohran Mamdani

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

— Dominick Dunne

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to…

— E. B. White