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

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

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

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

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

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.