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Quotes by Lawyer
"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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"But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created."
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"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
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"I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate."
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"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit."
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"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
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"Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values."
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"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government."
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"You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last."
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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"I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world."
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"And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing."
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"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over."
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"If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand."
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"I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection."
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"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
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"They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it."
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"You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan."
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"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom."
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"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."
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"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."
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"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
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"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
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"The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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"I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president."
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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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"Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time."
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