Floyd Abrams Quotes (19 quotes)

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„When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.“
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„The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.“
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„CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.“
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„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?“
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„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.“
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„CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.“
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„It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.“
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„Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.“
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„It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.“
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„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.“
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„I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.“
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„I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.“
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„I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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