He started with modest-sized pieces and built on the vocabulary he developed then. He's now broadened it much more to, dare I say, something operatic.

He worked harder than anybody. But he was never plagued by the kind of preoccupation with style and the idea of how an artist in New York should be. He was never concerned with being appropriately hip.

With those paintings, he really connected to looking at himself and the place he was from and what he could say about that.

This base closure is the roar that moused, ... It started out being very ambitious, but ended up being modest.

I admire him because when he started he came from very modest beginnings and has worked his way up. He has been a councilman, a mayor, an assemblyman, a congressman, and he went to the third highest position in the Democratic house.

all the pieces of evidence, all the statements that have been reviewed, all the witnesses that have been spoken to.