And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I w… — Sanford I. Weill

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

Sanford I. WeillBusinessman · American · b. 1933

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