Paul Rothstein Quotations

He's been a figure of mystery. His status was semi-covert before. A much greater segment of the public will now be aware of him.

There is an innocent explanation and a nefarious explanation.

It could change the way this country operates for the next 40 years, well beyond the time the president is in power.

It is a big message to Washington officials that if you only would come clean you would probably be OK.

I think they felt that Microsoft may have been thinking they got a lot out of the Court of Appeals decision, and that could lead a party to demand a lot in a settlement, ... I think they wanted to putÊ a light damper on that.

This will all come out in the trial.

To my knowledge, there's never been a Playboy model in the US Supreme Court.

The temptation for both sides of this controversy, if they have control of the school board, will be to exaggerate the guidelines, to administer them in a way that is not so neutral. And that may invite more lawsuits.

They may say some things that bear on abortions generally, either cutting back severely on a woman's right to have an abortion in all kinds of circumstances or perhaps -- and this is less likely -- abolishing the right to have an abortion completely.

It's not a case of refusal to abide by the condition. It's that the nursing home is forbidden from abiding by the condition by the law.

His expressions in the hearings on legal philosophy are right in the mainstream of legal tradition and legal thinking.

I don't mean to minimize the crime of perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors need these tools,