Top 37 Toobin's Quotes
#1. I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
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#2. I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.
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#3. I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'
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#4. My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
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#5. There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,
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#6. One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.
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#7. this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.
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#8. The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.
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#9. Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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#10. Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
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#11. According to the telephone poll, a full 40 percent of black women felt that the use of physical force was appropriate in a marriage. And black women especially could not abide Marcia Clark.
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#12. The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.
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#13. He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.
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#14. When Obama took office, Republican appointees controlled ten of the thirteen circuit courts of appeals; Democratic appointees now constitute a majority in nine circuits. Because federal judges have life tenure, nearly all of Obama's judges will continue serving well after he leaves office.
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#15. Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.
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#16. There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
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#17. The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.
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#18. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.
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#20. We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.
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#21. Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
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#22. He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
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#23. Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
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#25. Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.
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#26. sheepish, clarification. "Now, that plastic," Clark said. "Do you happen to
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#27. Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.
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#28. The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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#29. Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
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#30. It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.
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#32. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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#33. The biggest police gun battle ever to take place on American soil had begun, and it was on live television. -
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#34. Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
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#35. I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.
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#36. Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.
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#37. In this way, the Hearsts became the symbol of the overly lenient parents of the era and a counterpoint to the Republican administration's voice of discipline and order.
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