You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

I try to be a person of faith.

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.