"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."

"And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that."

"I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers."

"When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society."

"Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things."

"It is a essential truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."