Lawyers Quotes

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Arlen Specter

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The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.

Asma Jahangir

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There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.

Sydney Pollack

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I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Scott Bakula

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

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I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

Nicole Ari Parker

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I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

Letitia Wright

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Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Jane Bryant Quinn

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The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

Janet Reno

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Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

Glenn Greenwald

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Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

Frederick Reines

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We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

David Boies

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New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'

Bill Dedman

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Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as lawyers, journalists and accountants, are changing too. Some of their tasks are being replaced.

Alain Dehaze

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Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

Ng Chin Han

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Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won't save it if it can't find a way to bring new members into the fold.

Lawrence Wright

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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Gavin Rossdale

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One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'

Adam West

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My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Benicio Del Toro

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We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

Jerry Only

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Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

Ramsey Clark

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The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

Nadia Comaneci

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I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.

Michael Avenatti

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