19 Quotes by Gifford Miller

We can do a lot better in this city. We need leadership that's going to stand up and fight for urban areas across this country.

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.

From passing the city's first earned income tax credit to launching the structural unemployment initiative, Gifford has been a forceful advocate in getting results for the most vulnerable New Yorkers,

I think the first thing we have to do is grieve, ... We lost a colleague and a friend. And I think all the members of the council, our staff and his staff, have to join with the members of his family and the rest of the city in mourning his loss. It's a terrible, terrible loss.

It is not pandering to do something that people want, ... This is a responsible step to give a little relief to New Yorkers, and that is known as good government.