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

. . .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.

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

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

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