Eric Adams

Politician

1960-09-01

Quotes by Eric Adams

• We have equated a cancer diagnosis to 'death,' but we look at diabetes as 'something that you get when you get older.' But look at diabetes - it's the leading cause of limb amputation, heart disease, kidney failure. Many people don't equate diabetes with these other destructive things. I didn't equate it to those until I started reading about it.

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• We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

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• An increased police presence is not a panacea for our subway safety issues, but it's a step in the right direction.

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• The question should not be whether or not police are allowed to confront suspects; it should be about how we train them. The question should not be whether we have police; it should be how we use them. The question should not be whether judges should have the ability to protect New Yorkers from violent offenders; it should be how we let them.

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• Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there's reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.

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• I don't want anybody holding doors for me. I don't want anyone to hold my umbrella.

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• Soul food is find the most healthy food you can get and make it as toxic as possible. Collard greens are good for you. Kale is good for you. Yams are good for you. But they no longer are good for you when you start pouring the sugar, the oil, the butter, all of those items that make it unhealthy.

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• As a frequent rider of the subway myself, I cannot count the number of times I have had to personally intercede in a physical or verbal altercation, whether on the platform or in a subway car.

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• As a founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, I would often police the streets in a bulletproof vest one day during the high-crime 1980s and 1990s and protest bad behavior by cops the next.

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• I served in the NYPD for 22 years, and I can vividly recall trying to extract information from people who refused to cooperate.

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• The first classroom is in a mother's womb.

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• We can attract new businesses and jobs in fast-growing industries through tax incentives, incubators, zoning tools and CUNY partnerships.

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