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I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

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

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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

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The best answer to bad speech is good speech

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

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I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

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There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

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I am a peace supporting Jew.

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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

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Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

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This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

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The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

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The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

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You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

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I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

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There are many levels of truth.

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Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

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