339 private quotes tagged legal

“As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.”— Jay Alan Sekulow

“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.”— Ron Wyden

“I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.”— Tom Glazer

“I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.”— Melanie Brown

“To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.”— Potter Stewart

“As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.”— Bill Williams

“Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.”— Charles W. Pickering

“I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.”— Johnnie Cochran

“All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.”— Ian Hislop

“As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.”— Sam Waterston

“It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.”— Arthur Baer

“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.”— Sienna Miller

“A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.”— William Dunbar

“They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.”— Edward Bennett Williams

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.”— Lord Halifax

“From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.”— John Harington

“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”— James Joyce

“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.”— Michael Jordan

“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”— Ellen Key

“Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.”— P. J. O'Rourke

“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”— Colin Powell

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.”— James Patrick Murray

“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”— Sidney Poitier

“After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.”— George W. Bush