Floyd Abrams Quotes
- I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what…
- There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to…
- No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel…
- I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend…
- Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I…
- CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't…
- I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like…
- I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be…
- I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and…
- It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in…
- It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to…
- This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.