Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

I hate my own attorneys!

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It's about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he's chasing after his fee.

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

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

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

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

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.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

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.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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