Christine Pelosi Quotes

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

I'm an old trial lawyer.

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

I had 24 hours to prepare. If this were a criminal case 5 or 6 lawyers would have weeks to prepare.

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research.

More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

I will be the defence lawyer of the Italian people.

As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.