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I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.