Families are incubators for citizen activists.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.