The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

- Floyd Abrams

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

- Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it…

- Floyd Abrams

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as …

- Floyd Abrams

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause …

- Floyd Abrams

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful o…

- Floyd Abrams

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all…

- Floyd Abrams

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

- Floyd Abrams

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

- Floyd Abrams