"Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership."

"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options."

"Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams."

"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."

"In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this."

"The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order."

"I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think."

"If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was."