These attorney quotes will inspire you. An attorney is a person appointed to act for another in business or legal matters.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging attorney quotes, attorney sayings, and attorney proverbs.
Best Attorney Quotes
- “I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” ~ Steven Wright
- “No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney’s office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.” ~ Scott Stapp
- “Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like ‘Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn’t want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,’ or ‘Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.’ It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as ‘A Man.'” ~ Fred Melamed
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“My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.” ~ David Guterson
- “The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.” ~ Alan Dershowitz , Defense attorney quotes
- “The attorney general would call at 5 o’clock in the evening and say: ‘Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we’re likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'” ~ Harold H. Greene
- “I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.” ~ Judy Holliday
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“A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.” ~ Patrick Murray
- “He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.” ~ Charles Lamb
- “I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.” ~ Kathie Lee Gifford
- “Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they’re just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.” ~ Johnny Kelly
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“So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin
- “Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those – but it’s really important who’s mayor and who’s on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.” ~ Jello Biafra
- “As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.” ~ Ben Chandler
- “And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.” ~ Lara Flynn Boyle
- “Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.” ~ Chris Christie
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“If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” ~ Luther Burbank
- “You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.” ~ Joe Biden
- “My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.” ~ Steve Case
- “Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.” ~ Kazimir Malevich
- “Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.” ~ Earl Warren
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“The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.” ~ Douglas William Jerrold
- “I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.” ~ Jeff Gannon
- “Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.” ~ Will Rogers
- “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” ~ Robert Frost
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“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “You know, as attorney general, there’s no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.” ~ Charlie Crist
- “There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion’s share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.” ~ Dennis Hastert
- “As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.” ~ Kelly Ayotte
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“I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.” ~ Matt Bomer
- “I’ve been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.” ~ Monica Lewinsky
- “In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.” ~ Bob Ney
- “Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.” ~ Star Jones
- “Hey, I’m a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.” ~ Stephen F. Lynch
- “I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.” ~ Jim Garrison
- “Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it’s a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.” ~ Alberto Gonzales
- “I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation’s finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
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“In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he’s accused from a document issued by the public attorney.” ~ Jacques Verges
- “Tom Cruise’s attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin’s attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.” ~ Conan O’Brien
- “One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry’s perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.” ~ Vincent Bugliosi
- “When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.” ~ Tommy Shaw
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“There’s only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that’s about New York policemen.” ~ Sherry Stringfield
- “I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “The traditional practice is that the justices don’t ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn’t mind if they asked him questions and they did.” ~ Harold H. Greene
- “The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.” ~ Dick Thornburgh
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“I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.” ~ George J. Mitchell
- “Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.” ~ Jesse Ventura
- “If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.” ~ Jon Stewart
- “The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You’re an Attorney. It’s your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.” ~ Jean Giraudoux
- “I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” ~ Mario Puzo
- “The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.” ~ Jeremy Bentham
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“Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, “Hoc est corpus,” were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as “Hocus-pocus.” – John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.” ~ John Arbuthnot
- “When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?” ~ Jay Leno
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“I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.” ~ Eric Holder
- “It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.” ~ Herb Caen
- “You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.” ~ Charles Soule
- “I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.” ~ Van Jones
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“As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn’t want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said ‘What do you folks think.’ It’s a little bit of an odd situation because he’s a former deputy attorney general as well as head of the FBI so he may have trouble keeping on only the investigator hat forgetting that he’s a former deputy attorney general. So it’s not a good thing, it’s a distraction so I think we should just ignore it because there’s nothing there so get on with the business of last week of the election.” ~ William Weld
An attorney is one who is legally appointed to transact business on another’s behalf; especially: lawyer.
