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Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.
Carlo Gambino

Lawmakers, attorneys and representatives have a free pass to pilfer. We do not require one.
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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
John Naisbitt

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Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.
Michio Kaku

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Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Donald Rumsfeld

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And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'
George Burns

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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe

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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
Ellen DeGeneres

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Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.
Shirin Ebadi

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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Tullian Tchividjian

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I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
Joseph Wambaugh

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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
John Stuart Mill

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
J. P. Morgan

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Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
Gerry Spence

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The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
Dennis Hastert

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In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
Franklin Pierce

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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
Charles Hamilton Houston

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A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
Melvin Belli

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The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno

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Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
Big Bill Broonzy

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Got a budget for the lawyer though.
Rick Ross

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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
Jeremy Bentham

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The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
Anthony Kennedy

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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North

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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci

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Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
William Stringfellow

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
Abraham Lincoln

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
Barack Obama

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
Franz Kafka

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I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.
John Roberts

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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
R.J. Rushdoony

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A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.
Jimmy Fallon

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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
Sally Field

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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.
David Graham Phillips

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

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
Voltaire

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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
Nat Hentoff

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
George Carlin

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Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
Dale Dauten

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We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
Nicky Gumbel

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus

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I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
Grantland Rice

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If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.
Robert Downey, Jr.

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I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!
Courtney Love

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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
Daniel Gilbert

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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
Sue Grafton

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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray

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Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.
Mark Knopfler

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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
Antonin Scalia

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I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
Nathan Sawaya