Occupation: Lawyer Birth: September 1, 1938
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….
I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury i….
Nobody wants justice..
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….
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..
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….
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 trut….
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..
If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarth….
There are many levels of truth..
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..
I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core v….
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent….
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….
I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances ….
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only ….
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that b….
There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish b….
To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists….
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the p….