"Every year my relatives show up for Thanksgiving, and they want to all sleep at my house. There’s no more room. That’s where we are right now."

"State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies."

"I cannot tell you how often I start the day by telling my team you have to follow the law."

“Dyslexic, arrested, rejected—now I’m elected!”

"I'm not taking you anywhere with me — to a $500 dinner — if you got two tattoos on your neck saying 'lick me'. It ain't happening."

"Imagine how many love affairs would have been great if we did not live within the boundaries of our own intellectual capacities."

"When you think about it… I know you don't like to admit it, but I know you get on your knees and pray every night thank God Eric is the mayor of our city."

“I think the press is going to be very proud of the level of transparency I’m going to show.”

"I am mayor because God gave me the authority to be mayor, and he placed in the hearts of the voters to give me that authority."

"New York. This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that's why it's the greatest city on the globe."

"Don't tell me about no separation of church and state."

"...when I wake up, it scares me that I'm not scared."

"...when we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools."

"God said, "I'm going to take the most broken person and I'm going to elevate him to the place of being the mayor of the most powerful city on the globe.""

"The mayor of the most powerful city on the globe is a hip hop mayor."

"God made the intersectionality of 50 years of hip hop to be at the time that Eric Adams, the hip hop Mayor, is in office."

“When a mayor has swagger, the city has swagger."