Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Arlen Specter

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Billy Bob Thornton

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Henry Mazurek

Whenever you appeal, it's a little bit of an uphill battle. But it's a real issue an appellate court will take some time to decide and an issue the district attorney would rather not have.

Bill Self

We have put this situation behind us. The district attorney statement speaks for itself. We will have no further comment on this matter.

David Catalfamo

We have requested that the U.S Attorney for the Southern District investigate how these private conversations were recorded and disseminated, and who was responsible.

John Gleason

The extent of that obligation is something that all attorneys are very nervous about. It makes us have to make the call of whether or not there was a violation, and in certain cases that's difficult.

Barbara Thompson

The process of going through the state attorney general was difficult for us. But it was a necessary step for us and now we are on the right track.

Eric Schneiderman

Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.

Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Laura Wasser

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.

Louis Stokes

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.