Quotes About Legal

research analysts were increasingly paid to be bullish rather than accurate. In one celebrated incident, an analyst who had the chutzpah to recommend that Trump's Taj Mahal bonds be sold because they were unlikely to pay their interest was summarily fired by his firm after threats of legal retaliation from "The Donald" himself. (Later, the bonds did default.)

Reporters also tend to love trials. It may be that we are transfixed by a process in which the person being asked a question actually has to answer it. He cannot say he would rather not comment. He cannot tell an anecdote on a different subject. He has to answer the question—under oath that he is telling the truth.

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.

Brenna was anxious because her custody hearing was tomorrow

The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy.

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

I have faith in the jury system.

Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn't respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.