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

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.

Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

Full effort is full victory.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.