I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

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

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.