Domestics Cooking Quotes by David Dinkins

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

— David Dinkins

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper…

— David Dinkins

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

— David Dinkins

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be…

— David Dinkins

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise,…

— David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

— David Dinkins

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of…

— David Dinkins

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

— David Dinkins

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue…

— David Dinkins

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

— David Dinkins

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between…

— David Dinkins

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

— David Dinkins

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

— David Dinkins

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

— David Dinkins

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

— David Dinkins