Quotes About Legal

With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.

We've got to make sure tech companies - all of them - aren't taking steps that will place content beyond the reach of the courts.

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No - and I don't know if those days are ever going to come back - but at least, technically speaking, it's the legal way to do it.

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

We have brought down emissions in this country through our legal system and through technological innovation. We can do this on our own. We don't have to have the permission of countries all over the world to do that.

You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'

I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it's a high-risk environment.

I've heard you're good, but I don't think even you can sue a dead man.

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

O. J. Simpson

Attorneys were often the worst witnesses, believing their place to be on the other side of the podium, asking, not answering questions.

violence exercised in self-defense, which all societies from the most primitive to the most cultured and civilized, accept as moral and legal. The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi, who sanctioned it for those unable to master pure nonviolence.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.

She hadn't needed her own lawyer to point out that Matthew appeared to be trying to force her to spend money she didn't have on legal wrangling, to run down the clock and her resources until she walked away with as close to nothing as he could manage.