In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.