Courtroom Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The worst times were the years I was alone.

The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

I have had positive experiences with cameras.

When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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