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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.
Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.
There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.