The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.