Quotes About Integrity

I thought you were a lawyer, I said, spreading peanut butter. I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both...

If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

I'm happy to see you've found a church home, Abby," her father said piously. For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation. He had also steadily but discreetly pursued whiskey and women. An

And why not keep quiet? They're reaping a windfall. They have homes and cars, schools and health care, money for college. Why rock the boat? If the casino is doing a little dirty business with some gangsters, who cares? Speaking up might get you shot.

No smile, not a trace of warmth or humor, all business. Could she really be a party to the wrongful conviction of a man who'd been on death row fifteen years? It was hard to believe.

When used properly, it implied that Finley & Figg was something above your average two-bit operation.

The lawyer calmly said, "Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

Almost monthly I deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong. So I know the breed, the ilk, the subclass of lawyer who's above the law because he is the law. Huver

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.

can't do that, Greg, not now. If we walk away, the bad guys win again. Hugo died for nothing. BJC would be a joke. No. I'm still in.

It was simply unheard of for a member of the firm to ignore his billing.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

It was amazing how much cordiality could be created, and how much suspicion could be overlooked, by truckloads of cash. They

I was never a bully and I never started a fight. And I didn't like to fight, but if the other guy pushed me around, then I hit him back.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, and they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

My point is that I'm not sure I can find another judge so eager to be purchased.

It's far cheaper to pay bribes than to provide quality care.

Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. The

I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

El camino de la justicia está plagado de obstáculos y bombas trampa, la mayoría de ellos creados por hombres y mujeres que aseguran ser defensores de la justicia.

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.