All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

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.

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

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.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.