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Bill de Blasio
stated on June 26, 2019 in comments made during the first Democratic presidential primary debate:

"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. … These things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York."

By Emmarie Huetteman • June 27, 2019
Bill de Blasio
stated on May 17, 2019 in an interview:

"We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 10, 2019
Bill de Blasio
stated on January 3, 2018 in a press conference:

"The graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years"

By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018
Bill de Blasio
stated on February 13, 2017 in his 2017 State of the City address:

"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."

By Dan Clark • March 8, 2017
Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 in a WNYC interview:

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016
Bill de Blasio
stated on June 23, 2016 in a press conference at New York City Hall.:

Says "220,000 New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obama’s executive action been affirmed. So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are hurting right now whose rights and opportunities were taken away by the Supreme Court."

By Dan Clark • July 13, 2016