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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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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
"Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved."
"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents."
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"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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"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."
"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."
"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."
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