Floyd Abrams Quotes

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• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
• That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not…
• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that…
• I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or…
• I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a…
• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial,…
• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The…
• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police,…
• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of…
• 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…
• CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
• Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But…
• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should…
• My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was…
• When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but…
• I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with,…
• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and…

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