Lawyer

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

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.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

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.

For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

Setiap gugatan merupakan hasil dari seseorang yang melakukan kesalahan. Jika semua orang melakukannya kebenaran maka kita tidak membutuhkan hukum.

Kebanyakan demokrasi liberal tidak mencoba mencari tahu apa kebenarannya.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.