The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

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.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

Be Love; there is nothing greater.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.