Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'