Counsel Quotes

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.

The Atonement is an event that enables us to be reconciled to God.

The word atonement, or 'at-one-ment,' means to restore or to come back. In terms of family, it means to be reunited with one another and with God and His Son, Jesus Christ. It means sadness through separation will become happiness through reuniting.

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call.

I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game.

It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

At least Donald Trump is not politically correct;

he's not so concerned about rehearsing and focus grouping every statement he makes and that's one of the reasons I supported him.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property;

it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination.

I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana.

Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

Through the infinite Atonement, God has provided a means whereby we can both overcome our sins and become completely clean again. This is made possible by the eternal law of mercy. Mercy satisfies the claims of justice through our repentance and the power of the Atonement. Without the power of the Atonement and our complete repentance, we are subject to the law of justice.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up.

You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, Youd better hurry up, theyre going like hot cakes, and theyre going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA.

So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity.

He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string like other candidates.

We all need to unite behind stopping evil, whether it's Timothy McVeigh who is the terrorist in Oklahoma City, or it's Muslim terrorists in Barcelona, or it's somebody flying a plane into the World Trade Center, it's all evil.