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Quotes by Lawyer
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
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"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
4
"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
4
"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
4
"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
4
"Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them."
4
"Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction."
4
"The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents."
4
"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."
4
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
Will,
4
"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."
4
"We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well."
Risk,
4
"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
4
"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."
4
"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."
4
"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
4
"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie."
Lie,
4
"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."
4
"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
4
"We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership."
4
"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
4
"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
4
"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."
4
"Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged."
4
"The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign."
4
"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
4
"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."
4
"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."
4
"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."
4
"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
4
"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life."
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