Quotes from Susan Estrich

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?