Jon Stewart: “If people feel disorder, man, you won't be able to do.”

“You know, I lived in this city for a very long time, and I can tell you livability is if you can run this place, you will earn a great deal of leeway to do all kinds of innovative things. But If people feel disorder, man, you won't be able to do. And I've lived through the eras of New York where it was disorder, and it does make it. People feel it. I mean, look, public safety is the prerequisite for an affordability agenda.” (05:10–05:16)

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