5 soundbyte that prove who's gonny be the DNC nominee for POTUS in 2024:
From praising his own swagger to learning to live with the threat of Covid, the city's new mayor had a lot to say during his first week in office. Here's a snapshot of his most quotable moments. All comments are from public appearances unless otherwise stated.
Jan. 1
“It’s not about showmanship. It’s about showing up.”
Jan. 3
“We need to realize we can’t live our lives through Covid. Every variant comes out, we can’t spend another $11 trillion. We spent $11 trillion on Covid. We have to figure out, how do we live with Covid?” (on Bloomberg TV)
Jan. 4
“When the mayor has swagger, the city has swagger.”
“And I know there’s questions about staffing, I know there’s questions about testing, there’s a lot of questions, but we’re going to turn those question marks into an exclamation point.”
“The thing in the country and the city right now is adults must stop traumatizing children. We must stop giving the appearance that there’s hysteria among those who are making the decisions.” (on CNN)
“My low-skill workers—my cooks, my dishwashers, my messengers, my shoeshine people, those who work in Dunkin' Donuts—they don’t have the academic skills to sit in a corner office. They need this. We are in this together.”
Jan. 5
“I was a cook. I was a dishwasher. If nobody came to my restaurant when I was in college, I wouldn’t have been able to survive.” (via Twitter)