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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. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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

— Floyd 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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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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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 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. ↗

— 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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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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