Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

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.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

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

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

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.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.