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Others May Doubt Us. They May Criticize Us. They May Try To Deny Us What Is Rightfully Ours. But They Will Fail. And I Promise You, As Long As I Am Mayor, I Will Never Back Away From Fighting Any Opponent - Or Confronting Any Obstacle - That Would Prevent Our People From Achieving All Of Their Dreams In Our New York.

I've Always Wondered If People Who Block Each Other From Expressing Their Opinions Do So Because They Have So Little Confidence In Their Own. To Me, Encountering An Opposing Point Of View Is A Chance To Gain A Deeper Understanding Of The Issues At Stake And Develop My Own Point Of View. But The First Thing You've Got To Do Is You've Got To Let People Speak And You've Got To Listen. And That's What The First Amendment Is All About. That's What Really Distinguishes This Country From Others.

We Have An Expression In New York City Government - "in God We Trust, But For Everyone Else, Bring Data." It's So Easy To Pick Up A Sound Byte And Say, "oh, Yeah, Yeah, I Believe That," Without Really Thinking.

Is Your Company So Small You Have To Do Everything For Yourself? Wait Until You're So Big That You Can't. That's Worse.

We Need People From All Around The World. We Need Entrepreneurs, We Need Students That We're Educating In Our Schools That We Then Throw Out And We Should Make Sure They Can Stay Here. If We Don't Have The New Flux Of Immigrants, Nobody's Going To Create The Jobs For The Americans Who Are Currently Out Of Work.