I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less… — 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
