Attorney Quotes - Page 11

• I am a subject,
  And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,
  And therefore personally I lay my claim
  To my inheritance of free descent.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Challenges, Inheritance

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

  Jay Leno

  Hands, Laughing, Hills

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• I was appointed U.S. attorney by President [George] Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

  Chris Christie

  Apology, Next Day, People

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

  Chris Christie

  Fighting, Years, Careers

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

  Jim Steranko

  Believe, Artist, Law

  "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Long, President

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• A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a number on myself. "I am a powerful attorney, or a doctor." It's a little convincing job I do on myself first to know I can walk out on the set and know that I can be this guy.

  Ray Wise

  Powerful, Guy, Convincing

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I'm the first artist of any kind, good or bad, that was ever prosecuted by the Federal Government. Thirdly, they used the law retroactively. The obscenity statutes had changed in the early '70s, and they tried me under a 1969 statute. It was a railroad job. I was with a judge that was a Nixon appointee. A District Attorney who was a Nixon appointee. The only reason I never went to prison is because the Democrats took the White House.

  Harry Reems

  Artist, Judging, House

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Be cautious, understand the consequences of your decisions. You have to understand the consequences of every decision that you make. If you decide to be a writer, that's going to scale back your life, than when you decide to be an attorney. Y'know, if you send your kids to private school, then it's kind of like the federal budget, where if you spend money on one thing, but you have to cut on something else. So you just have to be aware, at all times, that every decision you make, has reverberations. And you have to understand those reverberations, and either you live with them, or you don't.

  Neal Gabler

  School, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.

  Aisha Tyler

  Growing Up, Kids, College

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

  Greg Abbott

  Law, Justice, Goal

  "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.

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• You get pigeonholed by what you sort of look like. And I don't mean this in a self-deprecating way. I'm grateful for any opportunity to act. But I think that if you're not classically attractive or mainstream attractive, especially as you get older, there's only like three jobs that people think you do. Like, "police officer who may be gay." District attorney is a big one. Lawyer. Doctor.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Grateful, Mean, Gay

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• There was certainly merit to the criticism that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had about how James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton investigation. And I don't think Director Comey ever adequately explained why he treated the Clinton investigation one way and the Trump investigation another.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Criticism, Clinton

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Want, Persons

  "Rev. Al Sharpton Defends Eric Holder". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes and Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2008.

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• [Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Law, Enforcement

  "'This Week' Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• If you're filing bankruptcy, you will likely want to hire an attorney. But for debt settlement, a company is sufficient, or as I said, you can often do the legwork on your own.

  Jean Chatzky

  Debt, Want, Said

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate.

  Donald Trump

  Justice, Reform, Watergate

  Source: time.com

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• My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

  Donald Trump

  Integrity, Justice, Department

  "Reality Check: Trump on Clinton emails" by Steven A. Holmes, edition.cnn.com. October 4, 2016.

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• So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?

  Kevin Drum

  Hands, President, Common

  "Here’s Theory #3 On How Donald Trump Got $916 Million in Tax-Free Income" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

  Zachary Quinto

  United States, Eric, Public Service

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I remember a case where I was associate attorney general where 720 dead people voted in Chicago in the 1982 election. I remember in my own election about 60 dead people voted. So I can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Chicago, Election

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with. They're essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.

  Adam Schiff

  Trying, Strategy, Prosecutor

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• When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

  Jeff Sessions

  Real, Support, Effort

  Source: www.esquire.com

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