Attorney Quotes - Page 7

• Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Law, Insightful

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• After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Rights

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• It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.

  Anthony Romero

  Reality, Law, Justice

  "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• My limo driver's white, my attorney black...
  'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

  Masta Ace

  Rap, White, Hip Hop

  Song: Good Ol' Love, Album: A Long Hot Summer, 2004

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Law, Rights

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Missing, Age, Hollywood

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• I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

  Denis Kearney

  Book, Law, Cities

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• Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Winning, Play

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• I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Integrity, Winning, Views

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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• So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
  Elderly ugly daughter.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Daughter, Elderly, Ugly

  'Trial by Jury' (1875)

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• If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

  Eric Holder

  Labels, Want, Accepting

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?

  T. D. Jakes

  Winning, Appreciate, Victory

  T. D. Jakes (2000). “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord”, Berkley

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• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Leadership, Self, Dust

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• It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Son, Office

  "Biden replacement creates blowback" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 24, 2008.

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• People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Thinking, People, Bills

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• As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Judging, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.

  Mark Shurtleff

  People, Done, Benefits

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• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

  Earl Warren

  Taken, Law, Individuality

  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79, 1965.

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Law, Duty, Ifs

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• As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Important, What's Important, Duty

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