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.

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.

I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by an abundance of gratuitous blood and gore.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.