Floyd Abrams Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.”

“This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 that's the norm.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.”