In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

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.

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

It is love and reason, ' I said, 'fleeing from all the madness of war.

What a beautiful day to go to hell

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.