Richard Cordray Quotes

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Neither the king nor any servant of his shall themselves cause a lawsuit to be begun, or hush up one that has been brought before them by some other man.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Litigation solves everything.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.

Where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law. Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

Nobody likes going to court.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

If after negotiations there are still some differences outstanding between us, the differences will be adjusted by arms.

Disputes arising out of the application or interpretation of this Treaty shall be resolved by negotiations. Any such disputes which cannot be settled by negotiations shall be resolved by conciliation or submitted to arbitration.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.