Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.
My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.
An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
I see a New York that is once again the empire state.