I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

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.

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

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

The law is agnostic about truth.