Bob Dole Quotes

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

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

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

It confers a great reputation, and great distinction to be accompanied by those whom you have defended and saved in the law courts.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

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.

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.

Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.

Dershowitz may be a genius in some ways, but he's not necessarily the advocate you want on your side.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.