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
jobs school law
I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
observation
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
stupid law people
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.
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Ed Koch is an excellent example, but I'm not here to bash Ed either,
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She gave the essence of civility to the struggle for equality in this country and kept alive the principles of fairness, equity and justice for which she, her husband, and their partners in struggle stood. The true measure of achievement is how many others we lift up along with us, and Mrs. King more than met that measure.
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I think those guys at the Post need to get their minds out of the gutter,
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And we arrived there on Friday morning, went first to an AIDS hospital. That's always a very good thing to do. I'm particularly interested in that.
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This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.
nights sitting whom
I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?
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criticize the incumbent, who I consider a friend.
consider criticize
I am not here to criticize the mayor, who I consider a friend,
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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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Well, I have not been a participant nor a witness of Mayor Bloomberg in press conferences. I really can't intelligently comment on that.