I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

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

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.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

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.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.