David Minge Quotes

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

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

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

One lawyer will make work for another.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

God bless the U.S. court system.

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

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

The job of a justice is justice.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

No person should suffer … without being brought to answer by due course and process of law

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

I believe in the jury system.