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.

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

. . .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.

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.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

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

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