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

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

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 went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

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.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

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

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

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

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

A purposeless life is a meaningless life

This may be a thing you neither want nor need, " she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.

I never told my love vocally still.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.