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.
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 typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
We need a country that embraces all, and rewards innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and hard-working people of all sorts.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.
I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.
