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.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

I love being in a courtroom.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

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.

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.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.