The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

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.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.