Robert Freeman Quotations

Often, individuals make requests important only to them. If an agency wants to stonewall, the likelihood of being challenged in court is practically nil. Most people don't have the resources or the time to challenge an agency's denial in court.

If we went to trial and the jury believed the plaintiff, I am sure the award would be in seven figures. I don't think the jury would believe that, but you never know what a jury is going to do.

We're hoping the weather the rest of the week should help it melt.

You can think of a lot of ways that would be wholly inappropriate, since they play in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London and Tokyo and so on. I didn't want to ask them to wear boots onstage.

Bush's budget wants us to declare that we should keep channeling ever more of the nation's wealth to those who are already the most wealthy, and to fund it by taking money from education, the poor, the disabled and from the impoverished elderly. That is the naked meaning of his never-ending tax cuts for the wealthy and his program cuts for the weak.

This (document) is not obscure, nor should it be difficult to find.

An uninformed public can do no good. Only with information can we contribute and improve the way we live. Ignorance really is not bliss. The more secrecy we have within our government, the less accountability.

Hey, life goes on. It's another day in the winter.

I think cooler heads prevailed in New York more than in other states. It seems there has been more thoughtfulness in New York for freedom of information than in the past.

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.