When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

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.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.