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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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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.
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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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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.
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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
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There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
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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.
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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.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
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This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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