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
children people mets
And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
wise people today
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
new-york cities people
The people really are what make New York City great.
mother new-york people
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
stupid law people
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
came ellis island people
Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.
guys minds post
I think those guys at the Post need to get their minds out of the gutter,
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.