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I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.

At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.