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.

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.

Love is better than any weapon

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

We search for life on others planets and in other regions of our galaxy. Meanwhile we destroy and ignore the other life on this planet.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.