The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
