'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

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.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.