"If, in the name of combating terrorism, we……" — Jed S. Rakoff
"If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?"
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16 Quotes by Jed S. Rakoff
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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime,…
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Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the…
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I have a past of making a fool of myself.
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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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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time,…
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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil…
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Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have…
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In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best…
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Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such…
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Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but…
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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system…
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An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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