Courtroom Quotes - Page 5

• I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Cameras, Positive Experiences, Experiments

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• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

  John Sununu

  Country, Educational, America

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• The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

  Rumi

  Covenant With God, Agreement, Judging

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• Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  Gabriel Macht

  Drama, Fans, Honestly

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• [Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

  Ann Coulter

  Would Be, Trials, Politics

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.185, Crown Forum

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• The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as friends over a drink or dinner. This habit is often interpreted by the layman as a mark of their ultimate corruption. In my opinion, it is their greatest moral achievement: It is a characteristic of humane tolerance that is most desperately needed at the present time.

  John Silber

  Law, Achievement, Tolerance

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• I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  Nancy Grace

  Violent, Wells, Prosecuting

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• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Lying, Numbers, Trials

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• I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Law, People

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• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  Rob Halford

  Thinking, Guitar, Ideas

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• Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

  Nelson Mandela

  White, Justice, Atmosphere

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Drama, Law, Games

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• I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

  Jon Ronson

  Thinking, Academia, Different

  "The complexities of the psychopath test: A Q&A with Jon Ronson". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

  Charles Dickens

  Might, Stairs, Lorry

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.62, Penguin

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• To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

  Jerry O'Connell

  School, Talking, Years

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