Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.