Defense Counsel Quotes

#1. Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last ... uh ... colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.

Paul Levine

#2. Belief is an odd thing for a defense counsel, Tommy. It is not necessary to believe in your client to defend him. Some would say that it is easier to not truly have an opinion, that the maneuverings of the law are only clouded by the emotions of trust and honesty. But

John Katzenbach

#3. 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

#4. agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please tell us about the bribe you can't prove you didn't take. So I would have joined

Lee Child

#5. The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.

Yo Gotti

#6. Reading is the Magic key,
To take you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson

#7. Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

Richard Koch

#8. Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins

#9. Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!

Betsey Johnson

#10. The Patriot Act [ ... ] makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

Michael Badnarik

#11. My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Bob Dylan

#12. If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

Timothy Keller