Attorney Quotes - Page 3

• So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Judging, Favors, Economy

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• The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, May, Known

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.140

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• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

  John Arbuthnot

  People, Historical, Nicknames

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agency, Rights, Race

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• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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

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• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Humor, Feet, Law Students

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

  Jay Leno

  Balls, Imagine, Injury

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• I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

  Eric Holder

  Men, Black, United States

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• It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

  Herb Caen

  Lost, Loved And Lost, Ifs

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• I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

  Van Jones

  Humble, Superhero, Civil Rights

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

  Charles Soule

  Details, Time Management, Good Times

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• The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the attorney general. It's important to understand, senators, that the rules and the methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities.

  Jamie Gorelick

  Believe, Responsibility, Law

  Jamie Gorelick's statement on wireless physical searches before the US House of Representatives permanent Select Committee on intelligence, thinkprogress.org. December 20, 2005.

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• My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

  Bob McDonnell

  Senior, Daughter, Mother

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• John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

  Nasim Pedrad

  Likes, Jurisdiction

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• My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.

  Sue Grafton

  Husband, Lying, Book

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• Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.

  Susanna Clarke

  Angel, Healthy, Fairy

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he believes that same ruling that stopped the first version of the ban should still apply to the second version of the ban because it is basically the same ban. It is basically the same policy.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Ferguson, Bob

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

  John Sparkman

  Choices Made, Law, Political

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• This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.

  Strom Thurmond

  Brother, Years, Umpires

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• [Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump].

  George Stephanopoulos

  Trump, Discussion

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• If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Law, Rights

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

  Bob Butterworth

  Favors, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?

  T. D. Jakes

  Winning, Appreciate, Victory

  T. D. Jakes (2000). “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord”, Berkley

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