Harvey Silverglate

comes truth.

That isn't necessarily so, but I do think that when there's free speech, better decisions are made because people put their views on the table in a frank, accurate way, and then those views mix together and clash, and out of that usually comes the better decision.

Not always, but usually, or more often than not.

But if somebody is not allowed to sit at the table of decision-making, then the decision-making process is poorer, less robust, less diverse, and ultimately less successful.

Living in a free society requires that you expose yourself to some discomfort.

You call it pain.

It's maybe emotional pain.

It's not physical pain.

But it's the price we pay for living in a free society.

Every so often we're insulted.

We're emotionally hurt.

Think of the alternative.

All the alternatives are worse.

Nobody ever promised us a rose garden.

We're lucky to be in a country that has the First Amendment.

It's also the most diverse country in the world because of immigration.

I mean, my...

My grandparents, my father's side came over from Russia.

My mother's side came over from Poland.

I'm very happy that my grandparents came in from Russia.