Courtroom Quotes

• Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

  Clarence Darrow

  Justice, Goes On

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• Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong?

  Bill Hicks

  Kings, Giving, Mind

  "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

  Woody Harrelson

  Play, Actors, Lines

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• A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

  Melvin Belli

  Outcomes, Facts, Lawyer

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• People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Television, Newspapers

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.183, Zed Books

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• Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Men, Prison, Walks

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• The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

  Uche Okafor

  Life, Judging, World

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• The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

  Warren E. Burger

  Pain, Judging, People

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• If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  Lance Ito

  Cameras, Ifs

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

  Harper Lee

  Respect, Black And White, Men

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

  John E. Jones III

  Office, Lawyer, Court

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  Warren Christopher

  Important, Temper, Loses

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• The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Tkam, Squares

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

  Mae West

  Sassy, Broadway, Amusing

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  Warren E. Burger

  People, Casual, Electrician

  Warren E. Burger (1978). “Trial court advocacy: a checklist of comments”

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• Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

  Eric Holder

  Reading, Reality, Rights

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• The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

  Ernst Zundel

  Judging, Lobbyists, Sitting

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• The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

  Lindsey Graham

  Umpires, Judging, Political

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• The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Judging, Supposed To Be, Our Lives

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• People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, Showing Up

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

  Ward Connerly

  College, America, Race

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• America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  America, Judging, Parent

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