Quotes by Floyd Abrams

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that theres 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 hes a journalist and not a police agent. (Floyd Abrams)

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. (Floyd Abrams)

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. (Floyd Abrams)

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped. (Floyd Abrams)

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didnt really have enough of that. (Floyd Abrams)

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say thats the norm. (Floyd Abrams)

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is. (Floyd Abrams)

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. (Floyd Abrams)

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different. (Floyd Abrams)

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. (Floyd Abrams)