I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

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.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.