Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

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.

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

I don't discuss works in progress.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.