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Quotes by Lawyer
"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."
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"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob."
Man,
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"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."
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"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
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"At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony."
Will,
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"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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"I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation."
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"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
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"There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting."
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"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."
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"My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations."
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"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."
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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."
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"In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left."
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"So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed."
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"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."
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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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"One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities."
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"This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools)."
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"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights."
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"I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!"
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"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity."
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"You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people."
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"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."
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"Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published."
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"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time."
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"It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made."
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"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
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"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
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"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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