I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.