Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told that we Democrats must prove that we are tough ... Of course the next Democratic President will use force, if necessary, to protect America's vital interests. In the campaign we said that. The Democrats believe that the United States should always try negotiation before confrontation. In my opinion, it's better to send in the diplomats before we send in the Marines...
...disputed, just as the CBS documentary did, Westmoreland's claim in 1967 that the U.S. had finally reached the "crossover point," at which more enemy forces were being killed than could be replaced. But he characterized his dispute with Westmoreland as an honest difference of opinion. Actually, he testified, he regarded estimates of enemy strength as inherently unreliable and unimportant. It was a remarkable aside from the precision-minded man who was often accused of being in the thrall of statistics...
Lewis: Can I just interrupt to chime in with an apt quotation on the point Howard was making. This is a wonderful libel opinion. Its an opinion of Judge Bork's in a case decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit last week. "In deciding a case like this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about...
Nesson: Its hard to pin it in any given place. Times and Sullivan was an opinion written with the best of intentions and great ambition by a great justice who I think didn't see the pitfalls of opening up the subject in the particular ways that he was opening it up...Once you set a kind of an open-ended agenda in an adversary system where there are high stakes, its inevitable...
...true or not, because you would eliminate all of that search ..Lastly, I think we have to get at the judge jury question. The Supreme Court has been reluctant to do that I think quite wrongly. Judge Bork, who is regarded as a Reaganite conservative, says in this opinion that it is the duty of a trial judge not to let any speech or writing go to a jury in a libel case if the speech or writing is in what he calls the "public, political arena." I agree with that...