In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

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

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.