I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

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