Anita Hill Quotes

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I could not permit my silence and my inaction to be construed as condonation.... With my tongue tied by the confidentiality demanded of me by law, there was only one way I could make a statement that something was wrong. I chose it. I resigned.

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

The legal profession is overrun with money-makers, who regard it only as a business by which money is made, with little or no thought of the quality of the means used. We greatly need many more lawyers who regard the profession as a ministry in the temple of Justice.

If someone has been paying you or employing you, it is very difficult to blow the whistle. It offends our sense of loyalty.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.