Miami

“The GDP growth is like Chinese GDP growth, 10%, eight percent, six and a half percent. He's running fiscal surpluses. You know, crime is down, down, down.”

“I also think that we should do Miami first, because they're not, afraid to come out to an audience. I think that people in New York and California still have, they have more PTSD.”

“He's the one who convinced Keith Raboy to move To Miami.”

“I think if hadn't gotten punched in the face by the homeless person, I think this all would have played out very differently.”

“Miami, the good thing about Miami is we know it'll be open no matter what, right?”

“One difference between Florida or Miami in particular and California and San Francisco in particular is nobody hates money or success over here. They're happy for, you know, all these rich people to come in and spend their money. They really believe in capital…”

“It's the second, second best tech city here.”

“In Miami, in the city, which is one of 34 cities in the county, we have 510. Homeless right now in the city.”

“We reduce homelessness by about 90% with that network.”

“San Francisco and the Bay Area had a lock on the tech ecosystem, and because the political forces there defined tech as the enemy, they basically have driven it out, and as a result, you now have emergent tech hubs all over the United States, starting with Mia…”

“We have 1.4% unemployment. We have, we're number one in the nation in wage growth. We're number one in the nation in tech jobs. We're number one in tech job migration. I think we've moved two trillion AUM in the last 18 months. And our VC pipeline grew by 200%…”

“It generates about fifty million dollars a year, which you can bond out, and we've created a decentralized set of facilities all across the MSA.”

“Our homicide rate went down by 23% last year, this year it's down by 40% from the 23% of last year.”

“We keep taxes as low as humanly possible. And shocker, our budget has doubled in size. Since we have kept taxes to the 19 sixties lows”

“So it was a good thing that I sold my Miami place last year.”

“We have the lowest unemployment in America. We have the highest median wage growth in America. We, I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and we've seen a 140% growth in nine years.”

“We're ranked the happiest city in America, the healthiest city in America.”

“Last year we had 27. OK, we had 220 in 1980. This year we're trending below the 24. So we may this may be the safest year in the history recorded history of Miami.”

“Two days ago, we announced that FC Barcelona moved their headquarters from New York to Miami, right?”

“We want to be the first major American city to have zero homeless, and we think we can get there.”

“I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and I took the city in 2009 as a councilman out of bankruptcy. So I got it in bankruptcy. We decided this is sort of the doge before doge. We decided not to raise taxes. We cut costs. We cut, you know, we didn't …”

“Housing costs have certainly gone up significantly, and we do everything we can to leverage public dollars and public assets like land to try to build projects at a 15 to one or 20 to one leverage rate. So for a hundred million dollars invested, we'll get two …”

“So, in homeless specifically, we are at an eleven-year low. We did our census, we do two census a year. We do one in January, one in the summer, and our January census had us at an eleven-year low at 546 homeless, unsheltered homeless in the entire city of Mia…”

“Mayor Suarez in Miami dropped a number by 90% and he did it just by making sure that you got arrested every time you peed publicly and they don't put you in jail. They put you in, in rehab.”