Megyn Kelly Quotes

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

My father was a small claims court jester.

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

It only takes one zealot to file a case.

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.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.