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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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