Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.

Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

Any human being has private thoughts.

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.