I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.
Don’t pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can’t. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That’s it. Every morning, I don’t care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It’s not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you’ve got good vegetables.
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.
The American dream belongs to all of us.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.
In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It’s not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.