Raymond Kethledge Quotes

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

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

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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

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

Nobody likes going to court.

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

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.