I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to preven….

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 196….

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should al….

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the ….

Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the….

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty..

I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry fo….

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into l….

In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the governm….

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..

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..

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker..

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, an….

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. T….

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 calcu….

The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as….

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of di….

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the pers….

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortab….

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It ….

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no ro….