John Deutch Quotes

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

One lawyer will make work for another.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

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

I am a lawyer by profession.

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

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

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

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

I enjoyed practicing law.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

[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.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.

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.