Sydney Pollack Quotes

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

I had enabled the development of a corrupt system right under my very eyes..

Representative Gingrich failed to exercise the discipline and caution of his office and so is subject to penalty today.

We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn't agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

Comey has left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.

I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

If you look at the number of aldermen who have been prosecuted and found liable of federal crimes over the years... the common thread among all of them is doing something in the exercise of aldermanic prerogative or privilege.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.