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Quotes by Lawyer
"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."
4
"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
4
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
4
"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."
4
"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so."
4
"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
4
"I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation."
4
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
4
"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
4
"We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere."
4
"There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots."
Skin,
4
"This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market."
4
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
4
"We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union."
4
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
4
"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
4
"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
4
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
4
"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for."
4
"It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore."
4
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."
4
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
4
"I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed."
Job,
4
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
4
"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
4
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
4
"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."
3
"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
3
"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
3
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
3
"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."
3
"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
3
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