Court Proceedings Quotes

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Nobody likes going to court.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

In general, I don't think that economic, social and cultural rights are primarily a matter of going to court. They are most useful today as commitments which can help ensure effective and equitable policy-making at every level.

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

If you don't have much money, you don't have much chance against a rich opponent, whether you are suing them or they are suing you. Cases can go on for years. Judgments can be appealed. The costs become enormous. Only those with deep pockets can pursue such cases to the end.

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

I fire lawyers frequently.