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

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.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

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.

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.