Trial Lawyer Sayings

#1. Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

Kamala Harris

#2. I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

Lindsey Graham

#3. People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

Christine Quinn

#4. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

Wynton Marsalis

#6. I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

John Grisham

#7. Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.

Steve Maraboli

#8. Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Joe Jamail

#9. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

#10. As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

Ann Coulter

#11. One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

Krishna Das

#12. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

#13. As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

Vincent Bugliosi

#14. An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Evelle J. Younger

#15. I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Vincent Bugliosi

#16. Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

Ann Coulter

#18. It seems at least once a day I'm reminded to be grateful that insanity and poor driving isn't contagious.

Lisa Shiroff

#19. Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Jerome Frank

#20. Hitler emphasized again and again his belief that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on modern science. Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition. 'Put a small telescope in a village, and you destroy a world of superstitions.'24

Richard J. Evans

#21. It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

Fefe Dobson

#22. Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Kenneth Minogue

#23. Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained.

Markus Zusak

#24. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Vincent Bugliosi

#25. This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

Buck McKeon

#26. I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Geraldine Ferraro

#27. I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know - all your knowledge and all your power - is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you.

Drew Karpyshyn

#28. At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

#29. If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

Rand Paul

#30. I'm an old trial lawyer.

Patrick Leahy

#31. Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Joe Conason

#32. Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Scott Bakula

#34. Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Jill Lepore

#35. The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

Orrin Hatch

#36. The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Irving Kaufman

#37. However little television you watch, watch less.

David McCullough