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Quotes by Lawyer

"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."

"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."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
End,

"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."

"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."

"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

"Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements."

"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."

"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."

"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"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."

"Education is the mother of leadership."

"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."

"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."

"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."

"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."

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

"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."

"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,

"We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well."
Risk,

"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."

"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."

"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie."
Lie,

"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."

"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."
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