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Attorney and author · American
American attorney and author
“Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.”
“No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.”
“Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.”
“The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.”
“Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.”
“This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.”
“It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.”
“He didnt have regular email like everyone else. He couldnt afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bash...”
“Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.”
“He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.”
“ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..”
“Terrorism was like heroin once a lonely, desperate soul was hooked on it, he or she became a fanatic radicalized they call it ready to die for a paradise in heaven that didnt exist by helping to...”
“When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law.”
“He wasnt dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime.”
“How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?”
“A Libertarians just a Democrat whose vote doesnt count. Same thing.”
“But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.”
“The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And its the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decis...”
“The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.”
“Thats the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we dont have much of it for this, but its all I have in here.”