Lawyer Quotes - Page 17

• Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me...
  Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,
  And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.

  RZA

  Rap, Jealous, Hip Hop

  Song: Wherever I Go

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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

  Mario Cuomo

  Simple, People, Political

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William Whitman, p. 25, 2003.

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Money, Doctors, Lasts

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• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Law, Ethics, Modernity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

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• Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

  Mark Knopfler

  School, Church

  Song: Telegraph Road

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• I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Years, Firefighter, Age

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• I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

  Janet Reno

  Caring, Feet, Support

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• As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

  Jay Sekulow

  Feet, Bills, Hours

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• I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

  Jay Sekulow

  Feet, Pay, Wells

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• In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

  Carolyn R. Dimmick

  Feminist, Together, Organized

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• When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Writing, Giving

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• So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

  Louie Gohmert

  Jobs, News, May

  "Republican Louie Gohmert Blasts American Jobs Act For Banning Unemployment Discrimination" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your
  writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.

  Douglas Preston

  Writing, Thinking, Doctors

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• Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

  Tony Benn

  Educational, Exercise, Direct Action

  "New Politics" Magazine, 1970.

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Body

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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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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• While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

  George Ryan

  Years, Office, Training

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• As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Commitment, Able, Incarceration

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• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  John Conyers

  Kings, Husband, Rights

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• No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Hands, Law

  Sir Edward Coke (2003). “The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke”

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