55 Quotes by David Dinkins

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

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

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

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

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

The people really are what make New York City great.

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

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

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