Johnnie Cochran Quotes

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

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• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

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• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

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• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

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• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

  

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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

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• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

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• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

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• I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

  

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• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
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• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

  

  Felice Picano
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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

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• The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

  

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• As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

  

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• Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

  

  Martin Rees
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• I think everybody, from every end of the market place, from young through to old, wants to be fashionable. Everybody. Women want to feel like they're wearing the right merchandise, regardless of age. They want to be trendy.

  

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• The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

  

  John Foster Dulles
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• On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

  

  Johnnie Cochran
  • Law
  • Lawyer