I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

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

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

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.