Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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.

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.