Floyd Abrams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Baseball #Curves #Balls
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Years #Law #Lasts
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

#Thinking #People #Police
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
-- Floyd Abrams

#New York #War #Block
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Loyalty #Causes #Clients
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Book #Law #Enough
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Book #Writing #Had Enough
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Block #Government #Trying
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
-- Floyd Abrams

#New York #Thinking #Texas
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Rights #People #Not Good Enough
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Lying #Mean #Views
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
-- Floyd Abrams

#Views #Freedom Of Speech #Important

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