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The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

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

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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

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

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Nobody wants justice.

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I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

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My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

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The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

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There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

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African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.

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Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

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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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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

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In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

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All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some have sought to dismiss or even counteract the hateful words of their sources.

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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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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

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The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

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Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

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