Quotes About Legal

There's a whole process of how the U.S. enters into executive agreements, which involves a legal component, a legal analysis of the agreement, as well as a review by executive branch agencies and otherwise.

China can be a difficult market for IP in general and IP compliance.

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

I spend thousands of dollars on lawyers every day just to make sure that I'm not gonna go to jail.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

This seemingly minor point is in fact important in distinguishing Chinese and Western legal concepts: the latter see natural persons as bearers of rights and duties independently of any action of the state, whereas in China citizenship is something conferred on individuals by the state.

Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

I don't think a crook has any rights in France.

Most people also think that the I.R.S. is a governmental agency, but it is not. It is privately owned and has no organizational or legal ties to the US Treasury Department.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

From where most hospital managers sit, Disney looks like a picnic compared to the fiscal, legal, and regulatory nightmare they face every day in a high-risk environment over which they have very little of the kind of control they would have at Disney.

We were not convicted. We would win this case if we fought it.

See Sean Coyle, "Thomas Hobbes and the Intellectual Origins of Legal Positivism," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 16 (2003), 243–270; Mark Murphy, "Was Hobbes a Legal Positivist?," Ethics 105 (1995), 846–873.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says You've been brought here for drinking. The drunk says Okay, let's get started.

You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer; I used to handle contracts on my own, and it was definitely corners that they would cut. It wouldn't have happened if I had a good lawyer behind me.