Lawyer Quotes - Page 35

• 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 peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York.

  Steven Shainberg

  Girlfriend, New York, Home

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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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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, Bars, May

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• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  Caterina Murino

  Brother, Doctors, Careers

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

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• I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Teaching, College

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• One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Law, Long, Modern Life

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• Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, Hands, Court

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• Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

  David Boies

  Cases

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• No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Roles, Calling, Prove

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Devil, Trials

  "Ann Coulter Reacts After John Edwads Calls Her a "She-Devil". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2007.

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• Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

  Neil Postman

  Worry Less, Discipline, President

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.98, Penguin

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• The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

  William O. Douglas

  Black, Firsts, Purpose

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Civilization, Numbers, Nurse

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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