As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

I have two grandchildren.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.