The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary