The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for 'Watch The Throne'.

I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

I'm fine with the life I have.

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

Rentals are 10% of the sales of luxury brands globally, and we are able to achieve that in India by experimenting with location.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.