When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.