Each one of them [referring to her family] believed that hiding things is never good and that by sharing them, we could give hope to some people - because so many people we know have suffered some of the same things.

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don’t know about [their status].

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

There are no bystanders in this life.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.