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

The people really are what make New York City great.

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.

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

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.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.