Eric Adams

"Lying is at the root of our training. At the academy, recruits are told that they should not see black or brown people as different, but we all do. We all know that the majority of people arrested for predatory crimes are African-American. We didn't create that scenario, but we have to police in that scenario. So we need to be honest and talk about it."

"All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success."

"Turn your haters into your waiters and give them a 15 percent tip."

"It blows my mind how much we have not embraced technology, and part of that is because many of our electeds are afraid. Anything technology they think, ‘Oh it’s a boogeyman. It’s Big Brother watching you,’...No, Big Brother is protecting you."

"Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies."

"I am mayor because God gave me the authority to be mayor, and he placed in the hearts of the voters to give me that authority. Sometimes we miss how God operates, but I am clear when I receive my blessings from God."