Gretchen Carlson Quotes

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Litigation solves everything.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

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.

The formation of a treaty often requires secrecy and dispatch …

Disputes arising out of the application or interpretation of this Treaty shall be resolved by negotiations. Any such disputes which cannot be settled by negotiations shall be resolved by conciliation or submitted to arbitration.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

Lawsuits take a long time.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

Nobody likes going to court.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law. Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering.

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

The best way to give these negotiations a chance, is to keep them private.

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

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'd never discuss anything confidential.