The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

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.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.