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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. -- Jon Stewart
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. -- Judy Holliday
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -- Luther Burbank
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. -- Jello Biafra
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. -- Jesse Ventura
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. -- Steve Case
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. -- Earl Warren
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. -- Joe Biden
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. -- Chris Christie
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. -- David Guterson
[Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump]. -- George Stephanopoulos
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. -- Jean Giraudoux
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. -- Goldie Hawn
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor. -- Jeremy Rifkin
There is no client as scary as an innocent man."J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. -- Michael Connelly
I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge. -- George J. Mitchell
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws. -- Raul Labrador
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney. -- Jacques Verges
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. -- Thomas Perez
I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. -- Jeff Gannon
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes. -- Jed S. Rakoff
Rudy Giuliani also be mentioned as a possible Attorney General. Is it fair to say that he would like to serve President Trump? -- George Stephanopoulos
My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. -- Bob McDonnell
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. -- Tommy Shaw
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. -- Michael Emerson
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed. -- Jeffrey Chiesa
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. -- Dick Thornburgh
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. -- Barack Obama
Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me? -- Cindy Sheehan
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash? -- James Whistler
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise. -- Preet Bharara
We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder. -- Al Sharpton
The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern. -- John Sparkman
President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent. -- Jon Stewart
Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more. -- Zachary Quinto
Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker. -- Jay Leno
On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing. -- Jay Leno
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney. -- Tad Williams
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet. -- Edwidge Danticat
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. -- Sonia Sotomayor
In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws. -- Ann Coulter
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country. -- Vincent Bugliosi
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. -- Denis Kearney
A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner. -- Jay Leno
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps. -- Dennis Hastert
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. -- Daniel Inouye
I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton]. -- Barack Obama
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections. -- Edwin Meese
I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General. -- Eric Holder
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office. -- Jon Stewart
It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her. -- Gail Sheehy
I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff's Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known. -- Tony Stewart
There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered. -- Louis Stokes
I guess the next Attorney General is going to have to figure that out. I don't know if that will be me or not, but the next Attorney General would have to figure that out [ if Hillary Clinton has violated the law]. -- Rudy Giuliani
I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress. -- Robert Hurt
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. -- Preet Bharara
The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids. -- Scott Stapp
[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one that could do it, but maybe that I could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody else. -- George Stephanopoulos
I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death. -- Roy Blunt
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left. -- Bill Vaughan
Attorney General John Ashcroft has been hospitalized. I believe he is suffering from homophobia. No, actually, it was just gallstones, but when they gave him the hospital gown that opens in the back, he refused to wear it, he thought it was a gay wedding dress. -- Jay Leno
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic. -- Scott Harshbarger
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state. -- Jim Garrison
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales. -- Barbara Mikulski
Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights. -- Bill Maher
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' -- Harold H. Greene
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man. -- Fred Melamed
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy. -- Michael Moriarty
You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management. -- Charles Soule
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. -- Gordon Bethune
After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant. -- Bill Dedman
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget. -- Ben Chandler
As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. -- Ben Chandler
Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age. -- Jane Leavy
Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office. -- Eric Schneiderman
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. -- Clare Short
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it. -- Johnny Isakson
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most. -- Al Sharpton
As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. -- Nelson Mandela
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own. -- Joe Biden
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals. -- Eric Holder
Never give power of attorney. -- Debbie Reynolds
Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney. -- Michael Crichton
Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney. -- George Harris
All's fair if you have a really good attorney. -- Norm Crosby
The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus. -- Louie Gohmert
I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney. -- Gloria Allred
I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property . -- Manning Marable
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter. -- W.S. Gilbert
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general. -- Bob Schaffer
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. -- Samuel Johnson
The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. -- Eric Holder
All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be. -- Pam Bondi
John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. -- Nasim Pedrad
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. -- Bob Butterworth
My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac. -- Masta Ace
I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. -- Eric Holder
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, -- Eric Holder
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. -- Eric Holder
The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part. -- Abbe Smith
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man, -- Eric Holder
It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney. -- Herb Caen
You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management. -- Charles Soule
I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says. -- Patrick Leahy
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece. -- Edwin Meese
My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice, which has been severely questioned. -- Donald Trump
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading. -- Bill Kurtis
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. -- Star Jones
There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen. -- Sherry Stringfield
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character. -- Matt Bomer
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. -- Rob Lowe
I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate. -- Donald Trump

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