My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertariani….

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually beli….

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights..

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer..

I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot o….

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. F….

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact..

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred..

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan..

[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the S….

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor….

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learne….

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender ….

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was th….

When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret ….

Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that….

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician..

What we have now in America is a surveillance society..

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since..

One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that said, if there is a botched abortion, i….

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all t….