David Dinkins

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

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.