Jeffrey Toobin Quotes

In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life she for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patricia Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She did not turn into a revolutionary. She turned into her mother.

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He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

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The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

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He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

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Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

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He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

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Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

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Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

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