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This campaign is for every person who believes in the dignity of their neighbors and that the government's job is to actually make our lives better.
We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Inaguration address (2026)
We are special as DSA electeds not because of ourselves, we are special because of our organization.
This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.
Election night victory speech (2025)
The work continues, the work endures, the work, my friends, has only just begun.
Inaguration address (2026)
To live in New York, to love New York, is to know that we are the stewards of something without equal in our world.
Inaguration address (2026)
In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
Election night victory speech (2025)
When we won the primary last June, there were many who said that these aspirations and those who held them had come out of nowhere. Yet one man's nowhere is another man's somewhere.
Inaguration address (2026)
For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness, while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public.
Inaguration address (2026)
The powers that be had looked away from these places for quite some time — if they'd known about them at all — so they dismissed them as nowhere.
Inaguration address (2026)
In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another.
Election night victory speech (2025)
My fellow New Yorkers: Today begins a new era.
Inaguration address (2026)
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.
Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again. With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics.
Election night victory speech (2025)
Let the words we’ve spoken together, the dreams we’ve dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together. New York, this power, it’s yours. This city belongs to you.
Thank you.
Election night victory speech (2025)
Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief, itself, has run out of language, I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.