For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I'm all about the crockpot.

I think all politicians lie.

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.