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

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

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.