John Liu Quotations

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

I don't think you could call it a public address system, ... It's a speaker coming from the token booth.

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.

It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs.

Our Youth Action Team promotes a stronger connection between young people and the community. We seek potential leaders who have the energy and motivation to contribute.

Transportation is not just about trains and cars and things on wheels. It's about how people get to and from work and it's the underpinning of economic development, ... I think that point needs to be understood more deeply by all of the candidates.

We are really hoping that he will pull through from this.

There are lots of issues that Asian Americans share, ... one being the immigrant experience, being relatively recent immigrant arrivals. And Asians also suffer from a perpetual- foreigner syndrome, meaning that you could be a fourth- or fifth-generation Asian American but still somehow it's difficult to believe that you're an American. I get that: First they compliment me on my ability to speak English, and often I get asked, 'Well, where are you from?' and for some reason people refuse to take Flushing for an answer.

Every ecosystem on the planet is under threat of catastrophic collapse, and if we don't begin to acknowledge and solve them, then we will go down.

There's no accountability for the MTA right now, and there's a huge burden on the workers. Everyone shares the blame, but the MTA in my opinion bears most of the onus if there's a shutdown.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

The mayor has taken us through a series of fiascos with the takeover of private bus lines. The city is down to half as many running buses as we had a few years back and riders are forced to wait twice as long for service.