46 Quotes by Fernando Ferrer

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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?'

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

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