You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."