Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

The police need to come down to street level.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

I grew up in the Bronx.

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

If you don’t put positive things in the city’s open spaces, they will be filled by negative things.

Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come.

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.

It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from 'the crime capital of America' to - according to the FBI - the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.

We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.

Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.