You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
