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 youth program
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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.
observation
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
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 hard-work cities
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.
country art new-york
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.
mother father six
Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
new-york cities people
The people really are what make New York City great.
country new-york cities
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.
new-york mistake grateful
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.
ties government guarantees
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
mother new-york people
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.