I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

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.

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.

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.