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" David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered. "

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" A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary. "

" As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime. "

" I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that. "

" A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism. "

" The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result. "

" The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so. "

" Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities. "

" You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop. "

" You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do. "

" I like music, a lot of different types of music. "

" I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time. "

" I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas. "

" If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either. "

" I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food. "

" It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent. "

" It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested. "

" In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to. "

" Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience. "

" If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City. "

" For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism. "

" New Yorkers are real gritty and tough. "