“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”
Source: The Rainmaker
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American lawyer, politician, and author 1955Related quotes
2005-10-10
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Miers and Brimstone
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2000s, 2005
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Source: King Henry VI, Part 2
“I’m a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?”
Sarcastic remark to a police officer after failing a Breathalyzer test (28 August 2001), a comment The Smoking Gun named "The Most Entertaining Celebrity Arrest Report" of 2001; of this incident she later said:
Listen, I’m not for everyone. Maybe those officers didn’t understand that I was kidding. … Maybe a lot of those people who wrote up those police reports thought I was being serious. They probably don’t have my same sense of humor. It’s not like they have a Petri dish of highbrow comedy over at the precinct.
As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009) http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/gossip/46450-natasha-lyonne-interview-heeb-magazine.html
Dissenting, DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 342 (1974)
Judicial opinions
“You Americans bring your accountants and lawyers. We are like Nike -- we just do it.”
On overseas Chinese doing business in China, versus Americans. Interview, Enter the Dragon: Building the Chinese Powerhouse, Jun 26, 1994. http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinprss.html
1994
“We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”
Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (4 May 1978)
Presidency (1977–1981)
Context: We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth —one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.
Source: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)