Ann Coulter Quotes

In representing criminal defendants—especially guilty ones—it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct.

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

All my life I have been under investigation.... I will just have to hire 200 more lawyers to keep me out of jail.

The first thing a good lawyer does is immediately presume the guilt of his client.

Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

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.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.