Bill de Blasio likens himself to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Mahatma Gandhi

“I want to talk to anyone who thinks that and tell them they need to start thinking more. I mean, give me a break. So every time someone tries something and it doesn't work, it invalidates anything else they might do going forward? Tell Thomas Edison that, and Henry Ford, tell Mahatma Gandhi. How many people fell on their faces along the way trying things, experimenting with things, had setbacks? There's no leader who hasn't had setbacks."Perhaps realizing the folly of comparing himself to such giants of history, de Blasio swiftly corrects himself — he's a "speck on the universe" compared to those three, just trying to do his part. But ask him about Hillary Clinton, whose 2000 Senate campaign he managed but whose 2016 presidential campaign he was banished from because he slammed her for failing to have a progressive vision, and he'll jump in with, "But I was right!" [Politico]