Attorney Quotes · Page 3

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

— Richard M. Daley

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

— Paul Heyman

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.

— Patrick Leahy

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

— Harry Connick, Jr

Rudy Giuliani also be mentioned as a possible Attorney General. Is it fair to say that he would like to serve President…

— George Stephanopoulos

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

— Trey Gowdy

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting…

— James Whistler

Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best.…

— Louie Giglio

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his…

— Edwin Meese

I guess the next Attorney General is going to have to figure that out. I don't know if that will be me…

— Rudy Giuliani

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."…

— John Arbuthnot

Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to…

— Conan O'Brien

The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark…

— Bill Dedman

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously…

— John Adams

WikiLeaks released new Clinton campaign e-mails revealing how friendly Hillary [Clinton] was with the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.This was only months prior…

— Donald Trump

A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a…

— Ray Wise

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I…

— Sue Grafton

Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]…

— Walter Cronkite

Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the…

— Samuel Alito

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it…

— Ayelet Waldman

When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is…

— Earl Warren

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

— Jodi Picoult

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

— Bob Butterworth

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

— Preet Bharara

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

— Samuel Johnson

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

— Herb Caen

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

— Anonymous

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'

— Juliet Landau

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

— Al Sharpton

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

— Johnny Kelly

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

— Charles Soule

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

— Jeff Gannon

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee

— Legal Maxim

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

— Luther Burbank

The one thing I learned from five years of law school is that I definitely didn't want to be an attorney.

— Cris Collinsworth

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

— Jacques Verges