Lawyers Quotes

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

Floyd Abrams

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You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

Sol Wachtler

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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Dan Quayle

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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Tom Holt

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I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Mike Oldfield

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I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

Luis Gutierrez

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Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Joseph Wambaugh

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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Dick Cavett

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That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

Christopher Darden

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For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

Asma Jahangir

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It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

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. It's always been easy, the legalese.

Scott Bakula

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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Thomas Friedman

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Activists create nonprofits for the sole purpose of suing their enemies, collecting a settlement check, and paying lawyers to find the next frivolous lawsuit.

Richard Grenell

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One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

Ken Cuccinelli

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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Jane McGonigal

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I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

Janet Reno

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I'm an electrical engineer. Honestly, I think we have too many lawyers in Washington. Maybe we need some more engineers. They're trained to solve problems, and we can actually do math, which is a desperately needed skill back there.

Greg Gianforte

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

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In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

David Boies

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Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

Bill Haslam

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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Will Rogers

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One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

Niall Ferguson

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