Howard Dean Quotes

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

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

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

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

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

Of Lawyers and Physicians I shall say nothing, because this Countrey is very Peaceable and Healthy; long may it so continue and never have occasion for the Tongue of the one, nor the Pen of the other, both equally destructive to Mens Estates and Lives

One lawyer will make work for another.

I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!

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

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

I don't like blood - I was trying to study to be a doctor, but I don't like blood.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.