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"First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one."
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"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
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Personal Development
"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
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Personal Development
"By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting."
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Personal Development
"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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Personal Development
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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Personal Development
"Where there is a risk, there is a wealth."
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"If safety is my goal, living life is not."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"Life is a game of chance. You ought to play the game."
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"So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city."
Money
"The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you."
Money
"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again."
Money
"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent."
Money
"And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane."
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"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country."
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"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
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"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money."
Money
"And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state."
Money
"The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got."
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