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Quotes by Lawyer

"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
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Valerie Jarrett
"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
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"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
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Edward Bennett Williams
"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
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"The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses."
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Robert Luskin
"The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses."
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"Pain is the root of knowledge."
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Simone Veil
"Pain is the root of knowledge."
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"We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report."
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"To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest."
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Harlan Stone
"To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest."
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"The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do."
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Robert Luskin
"The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do."
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"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."
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Eliot Spitzer
"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."
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"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
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Francis Biddle
"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
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"I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world."
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John J. McCloy
"I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world."
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."
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Simone Veil
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."
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"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
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Erwin Griswold
"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
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"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls."
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William Pennington
"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls."
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"One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost."
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Valerie Jarrett
"One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost."
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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
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Harlan Stone
"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
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"If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war."
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Belva Lockwood
"If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war."
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"What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?"
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Edward Bennett Williams
"What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?"
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"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
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Elliott Abrams
"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
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"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."
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Valerie Jarrett
"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."
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"Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land."
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William Pennington
"Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."
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Anne Weismann
"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."
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"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up."
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Thomas Foran
"There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up."
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"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
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Valerie Jarrett
"Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration."
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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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Edward Hall
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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"With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night."
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"We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible."
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Valerie Jarrett
"We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible."
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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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Fred F. Fielding
"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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"I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation."
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Belva Lockwood
"I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation."
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"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."
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Robert Luskin
"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."
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"Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it."
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Gerry Spence
"Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it."
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"I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else."
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Bella Abzug
"I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else."
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"If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe."
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Valerie Jarrett
"If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe."
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"President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress."
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Valerie Jarrett
"President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress."
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"At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony."
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Robert Luskin
"At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony."
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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
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"When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse."
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Newton N. Minow
"When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse."
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"Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets."
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Bradley A. Smith
"Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets."
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"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
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Belva Lockwood
"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
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"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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Justice Brandeis
"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"The more I know about men the more I like dogs."
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Gloria Allred
"The more I know about men the more I like dogs."
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"I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty."
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"There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right."
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Jonathan Turley
"There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right."
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"If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone."
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"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No."
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David Boies
"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No."
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"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."
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