Quotes About Legal Aid

#1. With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a more remunerative outlet for his legal knowledge. Inspired

David Mitchell

#2. She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys ... assumed legal aid was incompetent. Do-gooders were simply losers in disguise.

Laura Lippman

#3. One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

David Lange

#4. When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Ron Wyden

#5. If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.

Linda Pohl

#6. Legal aid ... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Jeremy Corbyn

#7. When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.

Jeremy Corbyn

#8. except for military lawyers and legal aid/public defenders, who reported the highest job satisfaction.106

Susan Swaim Daicoff

#9. If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe.

Steve Merrick

#10. Love won't kill you.
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Nicola Yoon

#11. America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

George Soros

#12. I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

Jil Sander

#13. We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Arthur Balfour

#15. How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

Learned Hand

#16. Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Lysander Spooner

#17. Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.

Paul Watson

#18. Wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

Emma Goldman

#19. I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats

#20. I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Sarah Silverman

#21. Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Mike Huckabee

#22. To grow a sanctuary from seedlings takes time. But time has a way of going faster than you realize, and before you're aware of it you'll be rewarded hundredfold for your efforts.

David Kline

#23. perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?

Tyler Cowen