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

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

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

The people really are what make New York City great.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.