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“You know, I support everyone's right to collectively bargain.”
“I don't think I'd redo anything. Because I think the mistakes I made were needed in my life to shape who I am.”
“Chicken parm is my favorite. I'm not a big fan of sushi.”
“I've personally seen the benefits of union apprenticeships up close.”
“Getting into recovery when I was 28 changed my whole life, my whole perspective. It grounded me in a different way.”
“The first job that had a real big impact on my life that I remember the best was I worked at a stationery store when I was in high school. And that job was really where I started to be curious about who I was and what I want to be like as I got older and working-wise.”
“Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.”
“As a white person, you can and should be opposed to racism. You can learn and understand the effects of how it affects people.”
“The federal government can't change a culture in a company that's losing people because that culture isn't a good culture.”
“With unemployment benefits, you don't get health care. You don't build your pension up. You don't build all of those programs that you need to move forward.”
“I've got a great relationship with Elizabeth Warren. Rock solid.”
“I get worried about young people with guns. It's something that I lose sleep over.”
“You know, I don't like when people talk about generous unemployment benefits because unemployment benefits are there to help people in very difficult, bad times.”
“Boston is a city for everyone. Whatever your age, whatever your income, whatever your dream: you should be able to make a home here.”
“In Boston, we don't lead by ourselves. We lead as the capital city and economic engine of a great Commonwealth.”
“Bostonians want our city to be more than an economic engine. We want to be a city where growth brings opportunity, community, and connection to every neighborhood.”
“Being a mayor, you can accomplish a lot in six or eight months.”
“As mayor, I made decisions I never thought I'd have to make: to close schools; pause construction; turn our convention center into a field hospital; and cancel the Boston Marathon for the first time in its history.”
“Well, child care can't be just addressed by the Biden administration. Child care has to be addressed by - from local government all the way to state government to the federal government to the private sector. And it's a system that needs to be invested in, and it's - quite honestly hasn't.”
“What happens in Washington, we feel on the streets of Boston. But here's what matters more: what we do in Boston can change this country.”