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.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

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.

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

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