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.

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

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.

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

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 the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

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.