More - Gifford Miller Quotes

The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.

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[Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, appeared at several black churches yesterday morning and issued a statement calling the Bush administration's response] shocking, inadequate and indefensible. ... we have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

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What I've learned from working in New York politics is that the race is either really obvious, or too close to call, ... And this race is too close to call.

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New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.

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Look all we want is some guidance on what the rules are and they seem to be changing the rules in the middle of the process and we would just like to know what the rules are.

Gifford Miller

 Guidance

[Miller was asked about the defections at the conclusion of an unrelated press conference.] I made my decision in the mayor's race, ... We're not here to talk about the mayor's race.

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We need to focus on schools; the overcrowding issues that are a big problem here in Queens, and the lack of supplies and teachers, but also take responsibility for the children outside the public school system, ... We need to make nurses available for parochial schools, yeshivas and other secular institutions, as well as provide funding for computers and software.

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 Focus

Clearly when you're going to run against someone's that's spending $100 million, you're going to have to raise money to be competitive, and I think I've done that, ... I don't worry or focus on what my opponents are doing; I focus on what needs to be done to get my message out of real accomplishments, of real results for real New Yorkers.

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 Money

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

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 Kids

We've complied with every rule and regulation of the Campaign Finance Board, and we've documented and disclosed every nickel that we've spent — unlike this mayor.

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 Finance