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Attorney and author · American
American attorney and author
“Look innocent. Have hope.” “Okay.” “And remember…” “What?” “Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted.”
“Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.”
“The truth can’t hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.”
“Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.”
“Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.”
“Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.”
“Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?”
“The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.”
“Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.”
“The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreaso...”
“The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.”
“Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.”
“Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?”
“Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.”
“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor”
“The Samurai lived by a code of honor, not unlike the code that you live by. It’s called the Bushido. It was never written down; was always something the Samurai knew, and it was handed down from on...”
“Everything in life has a yin and yang – an interconnected, complementary and opposite force. Just as we need the light to distinguish it from the dark, we recognize injustice in the world demands j...”
“I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.”
“Fair has nothing to do with it. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.”
“He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.”