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.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

I spoke in front of a huge gathering in Seattle, and someone got up and said, "I'm just so afraid." I said, "The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid."

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

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