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Quotes by Lawyer

"Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God."

"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."


"The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines."


"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."

"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."

"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur."

"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."

"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."


"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."

"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."


"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."

"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."

"Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed."


"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."


"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."

"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."

"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."

"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."

"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."

"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world."

"It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

"There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause."

"You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that."
Talk,

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it."
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