74 Quotes by Floyd Abrams

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

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?

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

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

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

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

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.