“Tonight we took another big step toward a fairer city for all, tonight another ratification of all that we’ve been doing together and it’s going to give us the fuel to go farther.”

—  Bill de Blasio

said at a victory party in Brooklyn. quoted by William Neuman of The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-primary-win.html.

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