David Dinkins Quotes

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• I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
• And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
• 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,…
• And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
• But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
• But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
• Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's…
• I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And…
• I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
• In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
• 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, a…
• My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
• Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time…
• You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.
• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not…
• So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's…
• Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a…

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