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

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

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.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

Only joy comes from song.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.