Defense Attorney Sayings

#1. The case of Cecily Chandler is a perfect example of how privileged people get over on the system," the young man said. "Harry Chandler had a famous defense attorney for a lawyer, a slick talker who probably played tennis with the judge.

James Patterson

#2. If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

Alan Dershowitz

#3. I'm an appellate criminal defense attorney. I'm used to losing.

Vanessa Place

#4. The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

#5. I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Tommy Bond

#6. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

Michael Connelly

#7. You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

Bryan Stevenson

#8. One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

Vincent Bugliosi

#9. think you'll find that when you let Him, God is a good defense attorney.

Chris Fabry

#10. I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

Jim Garrison

#11. I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

Matt Bomer

#12. After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

Eliot Spitzer

#13. When ... has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

Peter David

#14. Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Annette Bening

#15. If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.

Wes Fesler

#16. One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

Condola Rashad

#17. Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

Salman Khan

#18. I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

George Gaylord Simpson

#19. In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

T. B. Joshua

#20. I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.

Newt Gingrich

#21. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

Johnny Isakson

#22. That which does not kill you isn't finished.

Dana Gould

#23. I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

Michael D. Higgins

#24. One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

Fay Weldon

#25. Always following behind a prosecuting attorney, one defense counselor or another was unwittingly drawn into a debate with the previous speaker.

Jason Lucky Morrow

#26. To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Clarence Darrow

#27. It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#28. But I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

E.J.H. Corner

#29. I'm taking a quick shower. I'm gross. I need to be clean."
"You shouldn't be doing that." The door handle jingled. It wasn't locked. "Alex!"
"I'm naked," I warned.
Silence and then, "Is that supposed to make me not want to come in there?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

Cormac McCarthy

#31. The beer came and I said, "Joe, I'm thinking that there is something larger here than an attorney's zealous defense of his client." The master of understatement.

Robert Crais