Janet Reno Quotes

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

[Discussing the American colonies] In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science ...

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.