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.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.