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“I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.”

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When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

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It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on…

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I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole…

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Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company…

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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed…

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If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate…

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I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that…

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One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

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I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

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Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

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