#lawyers

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#affecting #america #being #candid #comfortable

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. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#always #commitment #components #corresponding #incarceration

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #does #down #estate #fun

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ↗

— Lord Halifax

#complain #could #first #laws #lawyers

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#always #becomes #been #best #between

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#clients #end #lawyers #limit #lion

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#bad #costs #lawyers #losing #lot

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#got #how #law #law school #lawyers

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors