Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

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.

Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights.

Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her.

Always walk toward the direction of your love.

Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.