I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

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

. . .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.

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

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

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