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Floyd Abrams

"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."

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"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."

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Donna Grant

"Judges are appointed often through the political process."

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Donna Grant

"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."

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Donna Grant

"You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer."

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Donna Grant

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

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Donna Grant

"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."

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Donna Grant

"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

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Donna Grant

"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."

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Donna Grant

"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."

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Donna Grant

"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."

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Floyd Abrams
"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 suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."

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Floyd Abrams
"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."

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Floyd Abrams
"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 can read it and understand it."

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Floyd Abrams
"I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York."

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Floyd Abrams
"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."

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Floyd Abrams
"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."

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Floyd Abrams
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."

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Floyd Abrams
"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."

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Floyd Abrams
"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."

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Floyd Abrams
"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."

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