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

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

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

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

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.

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