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

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

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

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 way to regroup and come back again.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

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

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

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

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

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

Life will just not wait for us to live it:We are in it, now, and Now is the time to Live

Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.

When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Music is indeed the Universal Language.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

When people think, Democrats win.