- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people really are what make New York City great.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Arm
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020