Ray Kelly Quotations

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

We're going forward with all deliberate speed and hopefully we'll be able to come to a successful conclusion soon.

New Yorkers are tough people. They realize that there are certain risks they have to assume, ... I think they also realize that the government is doing everything that we reasonably can do to protect them.

Had one of the best baseball minds I've ever been around. Connie Mack taught him well.

We've done quite a bit, and we're continuing to do that until we have a level of comfort that the threat has been reduced.

have a responsibility to the 8.1 million people that live in this city.

We have a lot of material to be analyzed by not just our office, but by the medical laboratories as well.

We offered police protection to 50 Cent but he left the state.

try to ascertain its validity, its seriousness, make sure it wasn't a hoax by one person.

We've increased our officers in the transit system,

There is nothing at this time that suggests a motive,

We're very much concerned about it and I think it's going to be a safe and very peaceful day.

We're very much concerned about it, and I think it's going to be a safe and very peaceful day,

This threat was very, very specific. It had specific time, specific object and modality. So, you know, we had to do what we did.

We do not think another attack is inevitable. But we do think that they will try. Our job is to stop them,

This is a general assembly like no other,

There was some pushing and shoving going on. We believe that Rhymes was there with his bodyguard Mr. Ramirez.

This is very significant development. When you talk about DNA here you are talking about the certainty of 1 in a trillion, so it's a very important piece of evidence for us. The investigation is going forward and has certainly not reached a finality. There's a lot more work to be done.

doing everything that's prudent, everything that we reasonably can do to protect the city.

Every attorney is mandated by law and by ethics to maintain the confidences and secrets in every file until the file is turned over to a successor attorney. Every attorney has the obligation to ensure that the attorney that's taking over the file does not have a conflict of interest relating to that file.

It's a national problem. We're trying to get help in this regard.

They have questioned them, they have used polygraph instruments on them, and that aspect of the threat seems to have lessened,

The new Freedom Tower design incorporates standards the police department had sought to protect the building against bomb blasts, which our counterterrorism experts agree present one of the greatest threats to such iconic structures,

Invariably, the detectives (investigating the case) found the deceased were made younger and healthier on paper.

I believe in the short term we'll have a much better sense of whether or not this has, you know, real substance to it.