Adversarial Quotes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

When you're not winning, you're losing.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Anything that's truly competitive, I love.

To think critically is always to be hostile.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

He will antagonize you. To that extent he is steady.

Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.

I like to take on athletes who have issues with me.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.