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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.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about books

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about law, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, people

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...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about war, secret

The force of vapour is another fertile source of moving...

The force of vapour is another fertile source of moving power; but even in this case it cannot be maintained that power is created.

Quote by Charles Babbage about power, force, police

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, law, good, good luck, time

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Quote by Floyd Abrams

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about things, good, good luck

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would...

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about country

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about problems

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of...

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about thinking, real estate, life

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.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about moral

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.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about burden, absolute, country, world, people

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.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about interest, circumstances

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things...

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Quote by Kathy Acker about things

People asked me after JFK what I believed, and I didn't care. You presume that people are on the side of their films' beliefs, but that's just not always the case.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about nation, people

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of...

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote by John Adams about criminals, nation, rightness

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Quote by Aeschylus about opinion

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Quote by Warren Beatty about motivation, actors, children, being

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all...

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about law, power

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and nobody in his right mind will believe this today.

Quote by Albert Camus about reality, society, mind, rightness, good, good luck, man

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