Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Blumenthal

I told them I was the attorney general...and they were going to take the rest of the day off,

It's not infrequent for local district attorneys to take the lead on fraud investigations. Obviously, that kind of a unit is closer to the community and closer to the problem.

Jonathan Turley

for Ashcroft to serve as attorney general and to protect the right to choose despite his own personal views in opposition.

I hope this decision will send a message to the state attorney to do the right thing. This is not a black decision, it's a right decision. It could have been some white boy or girl ... gross negligence was a major issue.

I have one question: on the one board meeting I missed, why did I have to go to an attorney to get the minutes? It was because of a conflict of interest with your wife.

I'm sure that is something our attorneys are looking into as we decide our course of action.

Richard Grasso

informed of the comments and the intentions of the New York State attorney general concerning his nomination.

Haley Barbour

That's the attorney general's job, and I try to do my job.

That is an outright lie. I will be more than happy to send you the contract to prove what he said is a lie. Frank Warren is an outright liar to say the contact was signed and there was a February date set. I can show you e-mails from my attorney and Frank Warren's attorney that said the contract would not be completed until this week,

That kind of thing needs to be reported to the Attorney General ... it isn't allowed.

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.

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.

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.

There's been no discussions. Unfortunately, I need to get attorneys involved now.

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.

In response to the town's invitation, the town's attorneys can expect to hear from Utopia to move this forward.

In addition, I am instructing my attorney to continue to defend me in court on the merits of the case and to only use strategies that are available to any Georgia citizen. I do not want to be treated differently because of my status as a state legislator.

He basically tries to sort of insert himself in weak families between the mother and the father. He, in both cases, tried to put his own attorneys in custody battles between the parents.

He and his attorneys are still studying the offers that are made.

David Cohen

Her attorney was able to convince me that the initial disposition was unfair to her.

If he'd hit a jogger or a child or something like that, there's no way he could have walked into the Sheriff's Department with his attorney and then walked out without being identified or charged. I think the reason is because the victim was homeless, rather than a typical citizen, jogger, whatever.

If he's deemed dangerous ..., he could be kept there for the remainder of his life. The psychiatrists involved at (state corrections) and the attorneys in our office felt he was still a threat.

J. Taylor

If I had known what the attorneys knew, I would have done things differently.

Russell Crowe

If I'm an international menace like the (prosecuting) attorney is suggesting, then fine. I'll just stay here.

I can't. All of my attorneys have said that if we're going to spend a dime to build goodwill with a legislator, then I've got to back away from it.

I am prepared to broker a meeting between the federal justice minister and the provincial attorney general. I want them to meet to determine how far they are prepared to go to implement criminal liability in the workplace and then to say so publicly.