Courtroom Quotes

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.