Quotes About Legal

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

As a former prosecutor, I never presented a case in front of the grand jury that didn't result in an indictment. Bottom line: If a prosecutor wants to indict a case, the case gets indicted.

In the Justice Department, responsibility for overseeing and directing investigations is lodged in the department's prosecutors.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together.

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the legal process and do so.

Derived from the Latin forensis, the word's root refers to the 'forum', and the practice and skill of making an argument before a professional, political or legal gathering. In classical

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My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It's about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he's chasing after his fee.

It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.