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

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 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.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.