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Floyd Abrams

"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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"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."

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"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."

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"I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy."

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"The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice."

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"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."

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"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."

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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

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"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."

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Floyd Abrams
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."

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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
"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."

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Floyd Abrams
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

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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
"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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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
"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
"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."

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Floyd Abrams
"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."

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