There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

The only thing we have is each other.

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.

Success would become inevitable if one gets in a habit of seeing no reason to give up when the going gets rough and tough.

Friends are thieves of time.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

Commitment achieves today what yesterday was impossible.