I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have. — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different. — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way,… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment,… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that,… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
