"I know a lot of reporters certainly will……" — Floyd Abrams
"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 this. But I can't say that's the norm."
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32 Quotes by Floyd Abrams
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this…
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree.…
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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that…
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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers…
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have…
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I…
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The…
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If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably,…
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to…
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view…
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More Confidential Quotes
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one of 40 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business…
— Hillary Clinton
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I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say…
— Hillary Clinton
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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all…
— Sun Tzu
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The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at…
— James Madison
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
— Candy Crowley
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Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn…
— Michael Franti
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The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
— Arthur Nielsen
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