Quotes About Public Defenders

#1. More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

#2. As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay.

Jodi Picoult

#3. When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Christine Pelosi

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

Susan Swaim Daicoff

#5. The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

George Gilder

#6. It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Glenn Tipton

#7. Education is largely run at the state level.

Mitt Romney

#8. Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: You don't.

Sanhita Baruah

#9. Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts,
Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart

Charles Baudelaire

#11. The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

Doug Flutie

#12. The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

Michael Hastings

#13. the sleeve slipping over the edge of the rung. I steadied myself, fed more of the sleeve through it, until I had a complete loop through the rung. That work shirt was my favorite one, Gap, one hundred

Kathy Hogan Trocheck

#14. Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.

Carl Malamud

#15. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Doris Lessing

#16. I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#17. If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

Mike Ditka

#18. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow