Quotes by Jeffrey Toobin

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“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”

“The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.”

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”

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

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

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

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“Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
accommodation conventional-wisdom leadership maturation

“He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
church-and-state civic-fabric culture factionalism

“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, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
calling curiosity idolatry job

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
evangelism grandstanding humility pride

“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
advocacy communication persuasion rhetoric

“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
Great Power World

“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
hypocrisy self-discipline thought-life

“The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
hypocrisy politics pragmatism

“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, ...”
— Jeffrey Toobin, American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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