A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

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.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

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

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.