I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.