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

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

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

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