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You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

— David Dinkins

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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.

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.

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

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