74 Quotes by Floyd Abrams

Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.

Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.

I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.

The story wasn't there, ... It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake, and CNN has apologized for it, as I think they should.

Telephone records are the extension of the journalist herself. Telephone records are the embodiment of the speech of the journalist and require the same protection.

coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

At its core, ... a time had come when it was possible to resolve this. Judy had no desire to continue to endure life in the detention center.

a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.