177 quotes found
Attorney and author · American
American attorney and author
“Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.”
“The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusi...”
“He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that deci...”
“Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.”
“The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.”
“Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.”
“Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.”
“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”
“The law works in mysterious ways”
“It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.”
“Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.”
“The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.”
“It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could “turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.”
“The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.”
“Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.”
“, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.”
“From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.”
“He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.”
“There’s never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.”
“He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-ba...”