If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

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 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.

When you fill others lives with love and happiness, your life will be full with pleasant surprises.

Knowledge gives you the upper hand

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.