9 Quotes by David Rivkin

I couldn't hear much, but didn't care. Until I saw the Beatles play live, I had no idea that musicians could generate that kind of adoration. I was transformed by the whole experience.

The criminal-defendants' rights revolution has clearly stalled, there has been a fair amount of laissez-faire in antitrust issues and regulatory issues in general and considerable deference to the executive in administrative law.

Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.

It's absolutely, clearly, constitutionally permissible, as a matter of international law, for an enemy combatant, lawful or unlawful, detained in the course of open hostilities, to be held on any charges proffered, for the duration of this particular conflict,

It's a crying shame that they're doing this.

For a very simple reason: It's not penal or punitive, or designed to get info out of him, which is entirely possible. You want to make sure he doesn't go back and pick up arms against you.

They definitely don't have to carry out a specific act of terrorism to be found guilty; otherwise, the whole material support statute wouldn't fly. The government has a strong case against Mr. Padilla. I think he's in a heap of trouble.

I knew that the losses should not have been claimed on the tax forms.

If you apply it literally, it prohibits detention as such because it is absolutely degrading to be sitting, instead of running around and applying your trade of killing Americans, it is degrading to be sitting in a cell.