10 Quotes & Sayings By Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin is the author of thirteen books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. He was senior legal analyst for CNN and currently serves as host of "The Take," a daily national talk show on CNN. His newest book, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, was published in 2005. His other books include Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, and Behind the Courtroom Door Read more

Toobin has won numerous awards, including three George Polk Awards for his television work, three Emmys for "best dramatic writing" of a series on CNN's "Inside Politics," and two Peabody Awards for "Best Talk Show" on public radio. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including "60 Minutes," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with David Letterman," and "Oprah Winfrey Presents." Toobin has also written two best-selling novels.

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Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court. Jeffrey Toobin
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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. Jeffrey Toobin
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He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check. Jeffrey Toobin
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Purple prose attracts attention more than converts. Jeffrey Toobin
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He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going. Jeffrey Toobin
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He denounced self-pity and pitied himself. Jeffrey Toobin
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The result always mattered more than the rhetoric. Jeffrey Toobin
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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. Jeffrey Toobin
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. Jeffrey Toobin