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[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Deal with just the basic fact: we will never have enough money for lawyers for poor people. So one of our major initiatives has been to develop new technologies that can help people without a lawyer navigate the legal system, and help sort the cases that really need to have a lawyer from those where an individual with some help online, may be able to manage by him or herself.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.