Lawyer Quotes - Page 23

• Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Nice, Compassion, Want

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• That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

  Christopher Darden

  Ifs

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• A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

  Neil Cavuto

  Faults

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• Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

  Spencer Antle

  Strong, Dirty, Cities

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power - in the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Government, Law, Judging

  Fred Rodell (1939). “Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402”, p.4, Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)

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• Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

  David Crosby

  Running, Records, Bigs

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• My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

  Mickey Kaus

  Father, Thinking, Judging

  Real Clear Politics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Lawyers don't run sales forces.

  Jeff Raikes

  Running, Force, Sales Force

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

  Bella Abzug

  Way, Hats, Young

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• There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

  Dorothy Fields

  Doctors, Careers, Reason

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• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  Dan Reynolds

  Dad, Inspiration, Home

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• When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

  Frank Lampard

  School, Wanted

  "'If you could choose a super power what would it be?'". Interview With Freddie Greenan, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

  Zach Braff

  Mother, Dad, Medicine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Teacher, Doctors, Want

  "On the moral high ground' by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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• Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Home, People

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• Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  Edwin Meese

  People, Giving, Police

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

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• So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

  George Will

  Blue Dress, Dresses, Complaining

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• Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Clever, Groups, Minorities

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• Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Religious, Rights, Air

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• Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

  Al Gore

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Safety, Community, Special

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• I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

  Ron Suskind

  Doctors, Views, Ideas

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• Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Book, College, Community

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• ... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Law, Driven

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