Eric Adams Most Unhinged Quotes

Airplane Analogies

  1. This is a place where everyday you wake up you can experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's opened. This is a very complicated city - and that's why this is the best city on the globe.

  2. To the analogy of the complexity of this city, or what could happen in this city, from planes landing on our Hudson River to all the other things. That was my comment...People knew what I was saying.

  3. I am the pilot, folks. And you are all passengers. Stop praying for me to crash the plane. Pray for me to land the plane. Because there's no parachutes on this plane.

He Loves Turkey

  1. You guys are from Turkey? Brooklyn loves Turkey. Brooklyn is the Istanbul of America. We love your food, we love you music, but I don't understand Turkish. We can take a selfie though.

  2. New York City is the Istanbul of America. We have some of the largest Turkish population. We're going to get everyone out of Patterson, New Jersey and tell them to come to New York City.

Omg I Love Traveling!!!

  1. But when you look at my passport and you see that… It's unfortunate. I was a little boy that had a dream of traveling the globe. And I'm living out that dream. I'm living out that dream of traveling the globe, something that no one in my family growing up ever left the country.

  2. I'm not going to be a MetroCard borough president—I'm going to be a passport borough president

  3. I was the first person in my family that left the country when I went to Morocco, and everybody on my block said why the hell are you going to Morocco?

Using New York to Over Compensate for Something

  1. New York has a brand...Kansas doesn't have a brand. When you go there there you go "okay you from Kansas". But New York has a brand.

  2. So if New York City is the greatest city on the globe, that makes me the greatest mayor on the globe.

  3. Thirty-something years ago, I woke up out of my sleep in a cold sweat. God spoke to my heart and said, 'you are going to be the mayor January 1, 2022.' And the message was clear. God stated, 'you cannot be silent, you must tell everyone you know.' I would go around the city, pastor, and I would tell everybody 'I'm gonna be mayor January 1, 2022.' People used to think I was on medication.

  4. I could walk down the block or some give me the thumbs up and another, they give me another finger. But that's New Yorkers. I wake up in the morning at some time and look at myself and I give myself the finger.

Just a Bit Power Hungry...

  1. I am not an American African. You are not an American Türkiye, a Chinese person's not an American Chinese. America tells you to put your country first..

  2. During the Fourth of July celebration, many of you slept well. You know why? Because in '20 and '21 the city felt like Iraq. We didn't have that anymore this year.

  3. I don't believe that people should be able to just take over our streets and march in our street. I don't believe people should be able to take over our bridges. I just don't believe you can run a city this complex where people can just do whatever they want.

  4. When people are out there talking about how they hate the mayor, you need to just give them a backhand and say, fall back. Fall back.

Miscellaneous

  1. Social media is taking the beauty of entertainment and drill music and taking it and now using it as retaliatory actions against other drill artists.

  2. Can you imagine an 18 to 24‑year‑old young man being told you cannot work, you can't do anything and you've got to sit around all day? An idle mind...

  3. All across the country, the DSA socialists are mobilizing to stop Eric Adams.