Attorney Quotes · Page 15

I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of…

— Alberto Gonzales

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years,…

— Anonymous

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District…

— Preet Bharara

[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney…

— Hansi Lo Wang

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty…

— Charles Macklin

[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one…

— George Stephanopoulos

Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…

— Jane Leavy

[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a…

— Nat Hentoff

When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986,…

— Jeff Sessions

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can…

— Russ Feingold

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening…

— Ryan Seacrest

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

— Jed S. Rakoff

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has…

— Anthony Kennedy

ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing…

— Ambrose Bierce

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is…

— Louis Stokes

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

— Arlen Specter

The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney…

— John Sparkman

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to…

— Eric Holder

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have…

— Ambrose Bierce

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man,

— Eric Holder

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

— Eric Holder

Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of…

— Johnny Isakson

Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become…

— Mark Shurtleff

The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and…

— Chris Christie