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"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."
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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."
"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly."
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us."
"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."
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"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."
"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best."
"I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues."
"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."
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