When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long a...
ADAM COHEN Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By...
ADAM COHEN The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
ADAM COHEN Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local...
ADAM COHEN It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shi...
ADAM COHEN The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of ...
ADAM COHEN It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act tha...
ADAM COHEN Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many...
ADAM COHEN Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in ...
ADAM COHEN A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a reco...
ADAM COHEN The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the cr...
ADAM COHEN Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other ite...
ADAM COHEN Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting ...
ADAM COHEN Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and w...
ADAM COHEN It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such ...
ADAM COHEN In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and...
ADAM COHEN Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
ADAM COHEN People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased...
ADAM COHEN A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge o...
ADAM COHEN There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: alw...
ADAM COHEN Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left...
ADAM COHEN One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work a...
ADAM COHEN The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to t...
ADAM COHEN I do think advancement benefits my family as whole.
ADAM COHEN Its hard to have a decent family life and advance at work,
ADAM COHEN Cats in the Cradle.
ADAM COHEN The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we're doing. So...
ADAM COHEN Everything we were doing back then was utilizing historic tax credits, but this did not qualify beca...
ADAM COHEN [The Miami relatives also failed to persuade the court that no Cuban medical or mental health person...
ADAM COHEN [That ruling may bode well for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who has petitioned the court to recognize his e...
ADAM COHEN So far, Washington has done little and New Orleans' response has been less than satisfying.
ADAM COHEN Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to ...
ADAM COHEN The Bonanza was potentially in the path of flights. We needed to stop all departing traffic to keep ...
ADAM COHEN The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
ADAM COHEN There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political...
ADAM COHEN As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
ADAM COHEN Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read mor...
ADAM COHEN Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even...
ADAM COHEN Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with ...
ADAM COHEN Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for ...
ADAM COHEN It would certainly have been very unusual for the court to rule against the father because the law p...
ADAM COHEN The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, t...
ADAM COHEN Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
ADAM COHEN Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-fai...
ADAM COHEN Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and...
ADAM COHEN In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead ins...
ADAM COHEN Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers w...
ADAM COHEN With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a...
ADAM COHEN An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain...
ADAM COHEN If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put...
ADAM COHEN The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they...
ADAM COHEN For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be ...
ADAM COHEN There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of ...
ADAM COHEN The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - o...
ADAM COHEN The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to sep...
ADAM COHEN A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in char...
ADAM COHEN As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
ADAM COHEN If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
ADAM COHEN It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It...
ADAM COHEN There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens&#...
ADAM COHEN Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when t...
ADAM COHEN Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
ADAM COHEN If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to ...
ADAM COHEN Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of ot...
ADAM COHEN A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who ...
ADAM COHEN Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal w...
ADAM COHEN There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the ...
ADAM COHEN It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easie...
ADAM COHEN One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
ADAM COHEN If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a m...
ADAM COHEN The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
ADAM COHEN There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still com...
ADAM COHEN Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restr...
ADAM COHEN The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's fir...
ADAM COHEN Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
ADAM COHEN The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
ADAM COHEN When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that pr...
ADAM COHEN The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be ...
ADAM COHEN If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent th...
ADAM COHEN DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
ADAM COHEN Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us -...
ADAM COHEN Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government...
ADAM COHEN Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hisp...
ADAM COHEN 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's sub...
ADAM COHEN Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
ADAM COHEN Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools...
ADAM COHEN Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution ...
ADAM COHEN Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
ADAM COHEN There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
ADAM COHEN After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your trave...
ADAM COHEN When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt ...
ADAM COHEN As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or no...
ADAM COHEN A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it...
ADAM COHEN Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a bette...
ADAM COHEN If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' re...
ADAM COHEN A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action...
ADAM COHEN State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
ADAM COHEN The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a l...
ADAM COHEN We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to...
ADAM COHEN In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was fi...
ADAM COHEN The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the...
ADAM COHEN If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right...
ADAM COHEN The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help th...
ADAM COHEN For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the charact...
ADAM COHEN Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era ...
ADAM COHEN To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of ...
ADAM COHEN Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...
ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ...
ADAM Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be pa...
JOSHUA COHEN When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writer...
LARRY COHEN All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment ...
LARRY COHEN Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies ...
LARRY COHEN Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
LARRY COHEN The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terri...
LARRY COHEN I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is...
ANDY COHEN I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my tr...
ANDY COHEN We are still the same flea market, just a new location. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that ...
AL COHEN We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what w...
AL COHEN We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.
AL COHEN It is just like a regular Broadway musical review.
AL COHEN I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.
ANDY COHEN Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter f...
ANDY COHEN I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, a...
ALAN COHEN How good can you let it get?
ALAN COHEN Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
ALAN COHEN To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. I...
ALAN COHEN Our history is not our destiny
ALAN COHEN Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ...
ALAN COHEN It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an...
RICH COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that ma...
LYOR COHEN I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. Th...
SASHA COHEN If undertaken, it would be aimed at extending, not ending, the current economic expansion.
ABBY COHEN Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transi...
ABBY COHEN We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 19...
ABBY COHEN The basic conclusion is that 1999-2000 will bring further gains in corporate profits, mild-mannered ...
ABBY COHEN If crude prices are near their trough, earnings should start to flatten out and move up.
ABBY COHEN The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizo...
ABBY COHEN I think what we had today was a disconnect between the stock market and the economy. The U.S. econom...
ABBY COHEN I think it was more of an excuse. Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around t...
ABBY COHEN Data suggest that economic activity has bottomed and that the worst is now being reported for corpor...
ABBY COHEN Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investme...
ABBY COHEN I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ...
ANAT COHEN You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more go...
ANDY COHEN You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with i...
ANDY COHEN Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the...
ANDY COHEN I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's ...
ANDY COHEN When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoev...
ANDY COHEN If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma La...
ANDY COHEN It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ...
BARBARA COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, w...
ANDREW COHEN What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN Be happy or die.
ROB COHEN The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunit...
RONALD COHEN One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister a...
BETSY COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ...
CHAPMAN COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CHAPMAN COHEN You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
HERB COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN