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.

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.

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.

He hadn’t struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he’d called out to Jesus when he’d been deep inside her.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.