As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins Facts 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… — David Dinkins Be you 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… — David Dinkins Advantage 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… — David Dinkins Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. — David Dinkins Observation Copy Share Image
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent… — David Dinkins Accomplishment Copy Share Image
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins Black 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… — David Dinkins Appropriate Copy Share Image
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. — David Dinkins Children 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… — David Dinkins Between Copy Share Image
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. — David Dinkins Committed Copy Share Image
And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation. — David Dinkins Chairman Copy Share Image
There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do. — David Dinkins Fear Copy Share Image
But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown. — David Dinkins Brown Copy Share Image
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through… — David Dinkins Clubs Copy Share Image
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia,… — David Dinkins Children Copy Share Image
I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential… — David Dinkins Ability Copy Share Image
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the… — David Dinkins Art Copy Share Image
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee,… — David Dinkins Ahead of time Copy Share Image
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. — David Dinkins Cleaning Copy Share Image
Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate. — David Dinkins Fortunate Copy Share Image
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are… — David Dinkins Failure Copy Share Image
