I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.