Famous Quotes & Sayings

as part of a bipartisan, broad-based effort. Obviously, it's clear that the attorney general is not interested in seriously participating in an effort to improve the merit system.

as in earlier mediation, including peace-making efforts when he was the state's attorney general, Kobayashi served without extra compensation.

That's why we turned it over to the attorney general to see if there were any violations of the District of Columbia election law.

We gave everything to our attorney ... but he felt three other individuals were taking a part in this.

Rudy Giuliani

The whole notion that police officers won't cooperate, this blue wall of silence thing -- the police commissioner and I challenged the police officers to break that silence, ... And one police officer -- a police officer, not a civilian -- came forward and courageously gave the district attorney the information that really has helped to pull this case together.

These are supposed to be civilians. There're not supposed to be attorneys involved here. This is an attorney's issue that was raised. We believe it was raised by the district attorney, Mr. Brazelton, who is the gentleman we're trying to avoid in the first place.

I understand his attorney is talking about using the suicide attempt, but I don't know how they'll get that information into a courtroom. I believe he's trying to use that to show negligent retention, making the city liable for hiring him and keeping him. But I don't think it's going to fly.

Trey Gowdy

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

Steve Thomas

I served a search warrant, only to find later defense attorneys were simply given copies of the evidence I yielded.

I unfortunately believe and I use the word unfortunately because Speaker Black's career is long and illustrious that this matter needs to be referred to the district attorney for the district attorney to look at that issue and make those decisions.

We will wait patiently and hope the attorney general doesn't come out with a cease-and-desist order or something like that, ... We'll keep our fingers crossed.

We indicated we will work closely with (the U.S. Attorney General's office) to make sure this crime ends up in the proper court.

We certainly don't have the struggle that our brothers and sisters down in Connecticut have, where you have legislators and an attorney general that are out of touch as far as Indian rights are concerned. It's certainly a long struggle, I know. I hope they make it. I know they deserve it.

We are very disappointed that this is the route the U.S. Attorney chose to take.

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.

Governor Romney will be working with Attorney General Reilly to review all legal options on the table to keep Otis open.

Governor Jeb Bush, Attorney General Charlie Crist, State Attorney Mark Ober, we are waiting. We are watching, but not for long.

Graham had a secret deal with the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana that in exchange for his testimony in numerous cases the U.S. Attorney would not prosecute him for his crimes in Louisiana and would even seek a sentence reduction for his crimes in other states, ... With this motivation, Graham conveniently knew all sorts of information about nefarious dealings in other districts.

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.

Andrew Cohen

Clearly, there is more to this story than what has been made public; than what defense attorneys or the prosecutor have disclosed. There has to be because what has been talked about publicly is a terribly weak case; one that even an eager grand jury would not have embraced the way this one did.

City Hall in Chicago, the complete county machine in Cook County. Bernie Carey, the Republican state's attorney up there, is a lonely watchdog.

I have to check with the Attorney General to see whether the content of this particular event violates our contract,

Because I called myself the heavy hitter, I was implying that other attorneys were not heavy hitters, so I changed it to 'A' heavy hitter.

Child custody has always been a state responsibility. Now, the federal government and the attorney general are trying to all of a sudden take that away, without ever interviewing the child.

He told us he knew of an attorney who handled adoptions and he'd get in touch with him for us.

He's an attorney in Houston. We tried our first case together in that courtroom. I think it'll bring back some good memories.

He's an individual who feels he has things to give the city, real experience as an educator, a business person, a practicing attorney and a crime fighter.

John Conyers

campaign finance has no relationship to the Starr referral and amazingly, this committee has now subpoenaed the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States to provide documents that they don't have the authority to provide without a court order, whose criteria this committee is yet to even satisfy.

He's sitting up, eating regular food and is even doing some attorney work. He is doing extremely well. He's a true gentleman, and he wonders what all the hoopla is about.

Hope springs eternal when you are a defense attorney in a case like this.

Edward Kennedy

How can we have any confidence at all that he will not do the same thing with the vast new powers he will have at his disposal as attorney general?