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 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.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.