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

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

I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.