The legislature is not a rubber-stamp organization, ... We are an independent branch of government.

It has become more apparent to us over the past seven months, as each new embarrassment is plastered across newspapers, that individuals within the university appear to have a greater interest in doing what is in the best interest of the Office of the President, rather than what is in the best interests of its students, its faculty or California's taxpayers.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

This (suicide) points to a continued failure at Chad in particular,

These horrific stories never should have happened in prisons, ... This is not something we can accept.

The U.S. government unfairly deported thousands of immigrants after the Sept. 11 attacks, simply because they were from Muslim countries, and were at the wrong place at the wrong time. For each, there was a network of children, parents, siblings, neighbours and community who depended on him.