Bill Scott Quotes

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

A lot can be debated about criminal justice and its delivery system.

Kamala Harris is a serious person who as California attorney general tried to tackle tough social problems in a way that most conservatives would support.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

It's not as if being leader of the Green party is something that I do because I love being leader of the Green party. I love the Green party and this is a service.

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

We play politics for the good of our people.

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost considered working in law enforcement or something like that, but that didn't really last long.

I do worry about population growth and the preservation of the green belt space but I don't think these are insurmountable problems.

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.

I think vigilantism is a pipe dream, because the larger need is for a justice system that works. Now, Batman cannot be Batman without police commissioner Jim Gordon, because every time he catches a villain, he tries to send them to Gordon. So, the idea is to help the justice system to work. I don't think it can work in real life, though.

On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.

I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

I have voted for police funding in part because of my own experience as a prosecutor.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.