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" We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. "

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" The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly. "

" When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues. "

" The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. "

" I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. "

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" The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. "

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" The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. "

" I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. "

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" I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. "

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" As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one. "

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" Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process. "

" I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. "

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" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "

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" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

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" Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. "

" Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. "

" Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it. "

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

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" I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them. "

" I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations. "

" Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people. "

" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "

" Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. "

" I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view. "

" Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. "

" From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition. "

" When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering. "

" I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. "

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" Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. "

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