The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people Being above the law Criminal abuse of authority.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I didn't volunteer they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.