Lawyer Quotes

If you get one good doctor, you get one good thing, but if you get one bad doctor, you get one bad thing. If you have a lawsuit, you get a bad lawyer, you lose your suit — you can appeal; but if you have one bad doctor, and he kills you, then there can be no appeal.

Nicholas Katzenbach

Sometimes there is a tendency to talk about women as though we are a herd... women believe this or women want that. But we very much vote on the issues depending on what's important.

Elizabeth Cheney

The liberty of the press ought to be left where the Constitution has placed it, without any power in Congress to abridge it; that if they abridge it, they will destroy it; and that whenever that falls, all our liberties must fall with it.

George Nicholas

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

On Richmond Hill there lives a lass More bright than Mayday morn; Whose charms all other maids' surpass — A rose without a thorn.

Leonard McNally

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

Charles Hamilton Houston

He [Saddam Hussein] will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years, I have endeavored - indeed, I have struggled - along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

In regard to all civil engineering, the first requisite is good judgment, the second requisite is good judgment, and the final requisite is GOOD JUDGMENT.

Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards.

Alexandre Balthazar Laurent

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.

St. George Tucker

You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras

Kellyanne Conway

There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many.

What we have in this country is the appearance of justice.

Johnnie Cochran

America. America. Land of my birth and erstwhile distiess. Hypocrite immemorial. My heart left long ago. At long last, I have followed it. Trying my very best, how could I, in good conscience, remain for a countiy that has never ever, at home or abroad, been for me or for mine?

Randall Robinson

Calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

What is the difference between a Lord Chancellor and a Secretary of State, the man on Clapham Omnibus could, with reason, ask. After all, that engagingly friendly and cheerful chappie, Lord Falconer, seems to be quite happy playing both roles.

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

These days everything went through the filter of knowing that she might be dying. And not a lot made it through.

Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true. It was false. He was at the beginning of the chain of the phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And he lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Mistaken
regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.