Quotes About Lawyers

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and scientists willing to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and bats.

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Detention cells in Hong Kong are not pleasant. In Thailand they are even worse. In Hong Kong you are at least allowed to see your lawyers.

What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?" "I give up. Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?" "Professional courtesy.

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation.

weeks' work. Kmart paid—happily. If its attorneys do not outsmart you, they will outwork you, and if they can't outwork you, they'll win through sheer intimidation. There is no firm in the world that has made more money, lawyer for lawyer, over the past two decades. On Joe Flom's wall

in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) Lawyers for each side met with inspectors of elections

Greenberg] offered his pilots what everyone from hockey players to software tycoons to takeover lawyers has been offered on the way to success: an opportunity to transform their relationship to their work.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

Lawyers make their living mincing words. Many devote their skill and hard labor to constructing the apparatus of justification.

The lawyers—see?—draw up an agreement, and she says okay on Monday and wants more money on Tuesday. And it begins again.

The Catholic Church was not short of lawyers, especially in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as anyone who had dealt with the archdiocese in the course of the recent abuse scandals could attest.

A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion.

Only a law can do nothing if the lawyers and authorities stay dishonest and corrupt.

Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón. Cada seis años la Patria cambia de apellido; nosotros, los hombres que esperamos en la plaza lo sabemos, y por eso esa mañana los abogados nos dieron tanta risa.