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

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

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

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 passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

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

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.