“Only by creating loyal­ties to something more universal than our im­mediate tribe — to ideas and values like community, tolerance, plural­ism, and equality — can we begin the process of reciprocity and reconcil­iation between blacks and Jews.”

"Rohatyn doesn't want to waste money on people. He wants to build a pyramid to the ego, another World Trade Center, another World's Fair, another Albany Mall"

“It’s all bullshit,” a wise FBI agent told me. “We don’t really know what’s going on.”