“The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimin...” — Pete Buttigieg Quote

“The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.”

“I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.”

“My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.”

“I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.”

“Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.”

“All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.”

“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.”

“If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.”

“The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.”

“After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.”

“I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.”