For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

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.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.