The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

Troublemakers will infect you with the malady of their madness.

All men desire by nature to know.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.

If you give your mess to the Messiah, He can turn it into a message.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.