In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

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.

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 growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

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.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.