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.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

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

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.