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Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
- Nov 07, 2020
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
- Nov 07, 2020
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and we will uphold the law of the United States.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am committed to finding new revenue so that state agencies, like the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, can continue to provide essential public safety departments to Alabamians.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020