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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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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels."
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"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"
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"Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade."
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"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
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"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."
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"A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am."
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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 enough of that."
Books
"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 a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
America
"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, but the cause was the same."
Cause
"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 think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
Winning
"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
Court
"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."
First
"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."
Will
"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 make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
Decision
"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 get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
Information
"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
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