Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.

Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from, I've got an idea on where I'm going, And with the way things are going, I'm just glad to be me.

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.