Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

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.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

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.

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.

There are many levels of truth.

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.

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.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.

Because it's all about the journey...

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

The happy man in this life needs friends.