History passes the final judgment
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.
I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.
I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.