It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.