Warren E. Burger Quotes

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

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

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? … Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Even judges sometimes progress.

There are some states where there are literally no lawyers on the state judiciary committee.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

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?.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

Folks are astounded that 'judge' isn't a synonym for 'humorless Luddite.'

I'm just an ordinary judge from California.

To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

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.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

I feel like I've had a number of roles in suits, which is hilarious to the people who know me, because it couldn't be further from who I am and what I wear. I think that Aaron Sorkin is, to a certain extent, responsible.