Quotes About Law

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

I was privileged to serve as a judge.

Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I didn't like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn't want to listen to people's problems; I had enough of my own.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.

We then need to consider carefully how the E.U. law that is going to be imported into our own law will operate. Its processes and interpretation have always been different from our own domestic law.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

The law is against us music composers. We have no legal control over our compositions. Music companies are selling our songs to producers at throwaway prices. We are helpless.

Law is a very addictive profession.

Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.