David Dinkins
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkinsis an American politician who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, only African American to hold that office...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 July 1927
CityTrenton, NJ
bash example excellent
Ed Koch is an excellent example, but I'm not here to bash Ed either,
guys minds post
I think those guys at the Post need to get their minds out of the gutter,
clear freddy support
We're clear on one thing, ... I support Freddy Ferrer.
al blamed gets publicly repeatedly
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.
confident difference immediate
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.
thinking lucky wells
Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
want being-the-best mayors
You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.
fall israel missiles
I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
jobs giving-up school
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.
jobs school law
I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
fun children real
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.
observation
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
brown court lawsuit
But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
school law matter
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.