I am committed to improving public safety outcomes from…

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and…

— Gavin Newsom

Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting…

— Robert Sapolsky

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and…

— Joaquin Castro

California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors…

— Gil Garcetti

Let's figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they'll thrive. Because if…

— Valerie Jarrett

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

— Ruben Hinojosa

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to…

— Dirk Kempthorne

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

— Cory Booker

My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities…

— Hill Harper

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of…

— Bobby Scott

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

— Jimmy Haynes

You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day.

— Anonymous

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

— Sue Kelly