I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

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

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

. . .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.

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.

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