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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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 145 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 138 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 141 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 138 | Rank: 0 | Fav

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It's a competing interest that matters.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 178 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 197 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 140 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Floyd Abrams (1936) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 180 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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