Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

Gentlemen, you cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

That image of a lawyer standing up in a criminal case and doing the right thing always stuck with me. I love the idea of building cases and really going after bad guys.

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.