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Quotes by Lawyer
"Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore."
3
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
3
"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."
3
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
3
"No one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence."
3
"The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real."
3
"So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric."
3
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
3
"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."
3
"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought."
3
"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head."
3
"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
3
"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
3
"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
3
"The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion."
3
"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."
3
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
3
"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."
3
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research."
3
"Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other."
3
"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them."
3
"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."
3
"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it."
3
"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."
2
"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."
2
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
2
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
2
"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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