Attorney Quotes

• Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Law Students, Lawyer

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Uncertainty, Law Students

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429

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• A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

  Mario Puzo

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.

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• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Law, Would Be

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.88

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• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Lying, Law, Duty

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Law, People

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.255

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

  Dennis Hastert

  Clients, Lions, Littles

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• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Winning, Lawyer

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• You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

  Charlie Crist

  Issues, Important, Safe

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• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  Harold H. Greene

  Practice, Justice, Mind

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• Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

  Jesse Ventura

  Criminals, Looks, Might

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.35, Villard

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• I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

  Monica Lewinsky

  School, Law, Knack

  "Excerpts From Barbara Walters' Interview of Monica Lewinsky". partners.nytimes.com. March 4, 1999.

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

  Jacques Verges

  Country, Men, Democratic

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• I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

  Star Jones

  Senior, Division, Brooklyn

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• Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Law, Knows

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  President, Hey, Unions

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• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Law, Aggravation, Support

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• Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Needs, Clients, Privilege

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• I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

  George J. Mitchell

  Pregnancy, Years, Judging

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• There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

  Sherry Stringfield

  New York, Shows, Policemen

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• I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

  Jim Garrison

  Defense, Satisfaction, Sides

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• I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Years, Law

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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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