Am I 53 or 54? I think I’m 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I’ll be 55.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

This (George W. Bush’s) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes...

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I believe the director’s primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can’t just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to...

I would say that without any doubt he’s the killer – the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I – there’s no question that he was the killer of...

We’ve been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it’s been a great business for us.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

I think that what we’ve been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children’s lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls...

I know we can’t abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be...

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the...

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

Your Honors will find in the old books concerning the office of a justice of the peace precedents of general warrants to search suspected houses.

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after...

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Well I don’t write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade – or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I was solicited to argue this cause as Advocate-General; and, because I would not, I have been charged with desertion from my office.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Why argue about things you can’t prove?

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas...

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

It was time in America for African Americans to take retribution for the legal crimes that had been committed against them for almost three centuries.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.