Floyd Abrams

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate…

— Floyd Abrams

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

— Floyd Abrams

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought…

— Floyd Abrams

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really…

— Floyd Abrams

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

— Floyd Abrams

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it…

— Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the…

— Floyd Abrams

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then…

— Floyd Abrams

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear…

— Floyd Abrams

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free…

— Floyd Abrams

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have…

— Floyd Abrams

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to…

— Floyd Abrams

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my…

— Floyd Abrams

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really…

— Floyd Abrams

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York…

— Floyd Abrams

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking…

— Floyd Abrams

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a…

— Floyd Abrams

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not…

— Floyd Abrams

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will…

— Floyd Abrams

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that…

— Floyd Abrams

That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we…

— Floyd Abrams

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

— Floyd Abrams

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in…

— Floyd Abrams

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be…

— Floyd Abrams

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