Irving Kaufman Quotes
- Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you…
- The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
- To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the…
- The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
- The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all…