The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.