I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

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

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

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

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."

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Today, it's not the same playing field as when I first became a lawyer in 1977, where the government had been restricted by our wonderful Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's court rulings. Now it's all going the other way, the flow is against the defendant, against anything that could really help a client. But you still fight it, you do what you can do. It's all there is.