NYC mayor Eric Adams: "You see, the problem is that you didn't have enough swagger to defeat covid."

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173. Here are the two full paragraphs from the address, as provided by the Mayor's Office,

No one should have to sit through a half hour speech to find out what he said. The whole speech can be read in 5.

https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/001-22/transcript-mayor-adams-chancellor-banks-deliver-remarks-concourse-village-elementary-school#/0

Mayor: When a Mayor has swagger, the city has swagger. We've allowed people to beat us down so much that all we did was wallow in COVID. It’s we did, and we no longer believed this is a city of swagger. This is a city of resiliency. And all of these messages out there of what is going to happen? What is going to happen? We're going to survive. And your message, your direct comment, your forcefulness matching yours and matching the rest of ours, we're not going to be defined by COVID, by crime, by economy. And you know why? Because we've went through some stuff. All of us, all of us have went through some stuff. So, this is nothing to those who have gone through a lot. We’re going to be here and turn our city around. You inspired me sister. You inspired me.

[Applause]

That’s why I got so much swagger. We need a Mayor of swagger. We need a Council Woman with swagger. We need Assembly Women with swagger. We need a Borough President with swagger. We need a Chancellor with swagger. We need a Police Commissioner with swagger. This is New York. It's a privilege to live in New York, and the leadership should have that swagger, that's what was what has been missing in this city. Well, you inspired me.