Alphonse Karr Quotes

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

While I bore the titel of "Honorable Judge", I felt less than honorable and moroe like a complicit tool of an unjust system.

It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'

I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

The money is given in these state judges elections by the very people who will appear before these judges. Now that can’t be a good system.

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just.

When it is left entirely to a judge to decide whether he should give place to another he becomes a judge in his case....

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Disparities in sentencing often resulted from unconscious biases of judges,

A perception of a conflict of interest is jsut as bad as a conflict of interest,