As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

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.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

I don't have a professional aspiration. But I do have a personal one: I want to continue growing as a person. I want to reach out more to people, learn more from them. Ultimately, I would like to be a great justice that people remember with respect and fondness.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.