The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
