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.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.