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1. "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." ~ David Dinkins
2. "But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike." ~ David Dinkins
3. "And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet." ~ David Dinkins
4. "And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation." ~ David Dinkins
5. "But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown." ~ David Dinkins
6. "I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs." ~ David Dinkins
7. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." ~ David Dinkins
8. "I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there." ~ David Dinkins
9. "In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee." ~ David Dinkins
10. "The people really are what make New York City great." ~ David Dinkins
11. "Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate." ~ David Dinkins
12. "Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated." ~ David Dinkins
13. "You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm." ~ David Dinkins
14. "I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club." ~ David Dinkins
15. "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." ~ David Dinkins
16. "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." ~ David Dinkins
17. "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." ~ David Dinkins
18. "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." ~ David Dinkins

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