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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. Floyd Abrams

You Book Better Problems Down Think Thirty Back Those Would Some Cases Shape Better Shape Had Over Come Look Deals Been Years Than Forty Forty Years Serious Now Last

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. Floyd Abrams

Best Try Thinking Back Way Best Way Come Judges Answer How Least Opponents Question Behave Did Whether Straight Really Needed

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. Floyd Abrams

Decision First Important Circumstances Some Case More First Amendment Particular Make Another Up Amendment Which Interest Against Really

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. Floyd Abrams

You Rights Book Try First Preaching Everybody First Amendment First Amendment Rights Without Said Amendment Amendment Rights Just Really Defend

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. Floyd Abrams

Exhausted Trial Highest Court Courts Texas Intermediate

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. Floyd Abrams

Think Fact New Texas Very York New York Fought

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 people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. Floyd Abrams

You People Police Word Perception Journalist Doubt Think Immediately Out Talk Learn Inevitably Exists Gets Any Public Speaking Therefore

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 at all that we can use to get you out of jail? Floyd Abrams

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

Dangerous Police Very Precedent Going Right

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 chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. Floyd Abrams

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. Francis Biddle

Constitution President Bothered Greatly Any Wartime

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 the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. Fred F. Fielding

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. Fred F. Fielding

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 he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged. Fred F. Fielding

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

Day Me Justice Practice Burger One Day Soon Supreme Supreme Court Returned Court Private Chief Chief Justice After Former Warren

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. G. Gordon Liddy

Death You Welcome Fear Defeat

I don't fear anything now. G. Gordon Liddy

Fear Anything Now

Once you start a war, you have to win. G. Gordon Liddy

War You Win Once Start

I became what I wanted to be. G. Gordon Liddy

Became Wanted

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. G. Gordon Liddy

Environmental Environmentalism Like Green Just Form Fanatics Them Pagan Fundamentalism

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life. G. Gordon Liddy

Life Will Important Believe How Yes Very Succeeded

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