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• It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.

  Anthony Romero

  Reality, Law, Justice

  "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Suicide

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• I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

  Diane Ladd

  People, Missionary, Problem

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• The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.

  Jonathan Larson

  Circles, Feet, Justice

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• ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Knowing, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

  Lowell Bergman

  Nice, Giving, Advice

  "A Talk With Lowell Bergman". FRONTLINE Interview, www.pbs.org. 1999.

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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• So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
  Elderly ugly daughter.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Daughter, Elderly, Ugly

  'Trial by Jury' (1875)

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• If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

  Eric Holder

  Labels, Want, Accepting

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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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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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Curves, Fundraising

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• When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

  Peter David

  Honor, Defense, Suits

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• My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan

  Mother, Father, Home

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• Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

  David Letterman

  Education, Comedy, States

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• Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.

  Craig Kilborn

  Directors, United States, News

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• As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Important, What's Important, Duty

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• I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Devil, Speak

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.

  Louie Giglio

  Awards, Musician, Want

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Law, Duty, Ifs

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• As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

  Michael Emerson

  Gun, May, North Carolina

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Senior, Dark, Age

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• Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Law, Insightful

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