Famous Quotes & Sayings

The attorney general and Mrs. Ashcroft thank the doctors, nurses and staff of the George Washington University Hospital for their excellent treatment and care,

It's dangerous for both attorneys to have a wild card who thinks you can disregard the law.

It's been turned over to the U.S. attorney and the military.

Ron Kuby

I told Curtis earlier that he would have to eat all his lies, but the attorney has made this a very long meal,

It's so flawed that we think the attorney general should just withdraw it. You cannot fix it by tinkering with it.

Everyone in the process makes a cut of the pie. The attorney who does the closing, the real estate appraiser makes his cut, the lender makes points and origination fees, the landowner sells his land and the manufactured-home dealer gets his commission.

The billing practices of the law firms and expert witnesses made it likely that billing attorneys for the law firms and the experts who issued invoices did not know how much time was being spent for any particular task or how much money was being charged to perform those tasks.

The biggest one out there is the federal one. I wouldn't glean anything from what negotiations with the state attorney general could mean relative to settlement with the DOJ (Department of Justice).

There were times when the investigators felt that interviews and the focus of interviews should move quicker than the attorneys who were managing the inquiry or the grand jury otherwise decided. And that was the source of some frustration at different points,

I want the attorney general to remove Mr. Penn from the council race until such time as he does not possess a conflict of interest as outlined in my complaint.

I want to be attorney general so I can get back to being the people's attorney. I want to get back to things like item pricing and insurance redlining, the kind of things Frank Kelly fought for.

Jules Shear

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

Cynthia McKinney

The world is teetering on the brink of conflicts while the Administration's policies are vague, wavering and unclear. Major financial conflicts of interest involving the President, the Attorney General, the Vice President and others in the Administration have been and continue to be exposed.

I've held two attorney general-like offices in New York City. I've gotten real results for the people and families of New York City. I can certainly do that for the people of New York state.

It's a standard part of the investigative process in any situation like this When the district attorney needs information, wants to see what e-mails have been exchanged, that kind of thing, they'll take computers from an office, they'll image the hard drives and then they'll return it.

It's a sign that we are supportive of the attorney general and a clear indication of the regard ENPAC members have for the attorney general.

It's a big one. More and more you're seeing victims put in a position where they feel they have to hire an attorney to represent their best interests in court. Because the reality is, the legal justice system does not do that.

It's a very complex set of issues. We're definitely going to be having some serious discussions and deliberations with the attorney general.

There must be a great deal of pressure on police departments and district attorneys to file these cases in the first place. . . . sometimes, as in this case, there is a rush to judgment.

Alberto Gonzales

They report up to the attorney general, who - we all report up to the President of the United States. All of us work in the executive branch.

They're all solid candidates. They're very much in the traditional mold for California Supreme Court justices. They worked in a DA's office or the attorney general's office and then they climbed the judicial ladder. They've come up through the ranks and they don't bring much career diversity to the court.

All 67 district attorneys and the state police have to keep detailed records of their drug seizures. We take that information and break it down into the 67 counties, so for each county there is a detailed record of what is seized. Copies of this are then given to the General Assembly.

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,

You're going to look to see who the district attorney and police have talked to and you're going to talk to them yourself. The idea here is you don't want to rely on the work that's already been done by the government, you want to do it yourself.

Jerry Brown

You need the experience, you need the broad range of understanding that the complexity and the power of the Attorney General's Office truly requires.

Young attorneys represent the future of our firm and we believe it's crucial for the well-being of Nelson Mullins and its clients to invest in the next generation.

Robert Hurt

I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.

Geoffrey Fieger

I fully expect that I will be indicted by a grand jury who will indict a bottle of beer if the Republican U.S. attorney told them to do it.

Gil Garcetti

If you cannot have faith and trust in your police officer -- either as a citizen or as a juror or as a judge, as defense lawyers, as a district attorney -- then we do not have an acceptable, a viable criminal justice system,

If you didn't want to become a great golfer, or a piano player, or an attorney or an accountant, whatever (Tiger) wanted was fine with them. That they didn't get caught up in his super ability, that was amazing. They continued trying to raise a good person, and golf was just something that he was good at.

In refusing to go to court for a stay, the attorney general acknowledged reality: The case is over.

Robert Nelson

The seven-month deadline is real tough. I've heard enough whining from debtors' attorneys that my guess is that this provision is going to present problems.

John Tory

I want to see the premier and the attorney general (Michael Bryant), who showed such vigour (last summer) when it came to (banning) pit bulls, showing the same vigour when it comes to the criminal justice system,