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

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

The people really are what make New York City great.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

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.

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.