I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

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.

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

Life is a panic, without a prayer.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.