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.

If we are not represented, we are slaves.

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel’s job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

So I think in those circumstances, there’s some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren’t vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is...

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

We’ve got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

In the third place, a person with this writ, in the daytime, may enter all houses, shops, etc., at will, and command all to assist him.

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result.

You know, working as an actor, I’m always working within my own imagination.

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but...

So I think it’s important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I...

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

I’m a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

What light is to the eyes — what air is to the lungs — what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Indeed, the actor’s lot is a much harder one than that of the director’s, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

I’m still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally,...

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

A man’s house is his castle.

I am not interested in women just because they’re women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it’s practiced today, there’s no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with...

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience’ sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them...

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I’ve loved every minute of it.