I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

In my darkness time, God splendour light shines my path.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.