My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.

[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.