“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
Fran Lebowitz
“I am a NEW YORKER which means i work full time and live my life part time”
Kenneth waters Jr
“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.”
Alan Brien
“As world leaders gather in New York, we are still decades away from meeting the modest Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty. A critical tool for achieving these goals is debt cancellation. A recent study by U.K. charities found that at least 62 low-income nations would require full debt cancellation -- in addition to more aid and trade justice -- as a first step towards achieving the goals.”
Neil Watkins
“The rest of the world did not go away because New York was attacked. There are many many problems in the world we need to address, not just that one.”
Jody Williams
“They understand that when New York was hit, the rest of the world responded, ... We were not forgotten by the rest of this country and we understand we have an obligation, and we're happy to do it.”
Michael Bloomberg
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”
William E. Geist
