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

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.

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

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

All promise outruns performance.

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Fear could never make virtue.