"At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving."

"Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else."

"As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men."

"I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives."

"My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore."

"Father of four. I like the sound of that."