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I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
Christopher Darden

School, Thought, Difference

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.
Christopher Darden

Sleep, Night, Accept

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
Christopher Darden

Good, Health, Reason

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
Christopher Darden

Power, School, Through

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
Christopher Darden

Question, Granted, General

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
Stephen Breyer

Important, Liberty, American

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
Stephen Breyer

Means, Facts, Decide

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.
Stephen Breyer

Human, Trials, Often

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
John Cornyn

Health, War, Care

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
William Jackson

Different, Said, Support

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
George J. Mitchell

Life, Judge, Decision

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
George J. Mitchell

Life, Small, Goal

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
George J. Mitchell

Money, Great, Positive

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
George J. Mitchell

Politics, Job, Through

I enjoyed practicing law.
George J. Mitchell

Enjoyed, Practicing

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell

Time, School, Justice

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
David Neeleman

Giving, Enough, Vote

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack

Nature, Point, Number

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
Chris Noth

Show, Year, Leave

'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
Chris Noth

Bored, Actor, Order

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
Joyce Cary

Remember, Means, Artist

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
Alex Cox

Worked, Studies, Harder

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
Mahmoud Abbas

Everyone, Follow, Authority

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
Mahmoud Abbas

Government, Here, State

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
David Dinkins

Fail, Crime, Committed

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
David Dinkins

School, Service, Matter

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
David Dinkins

School, Two, Working

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins

School, Job, Political

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
Edward Everett

Battle, Public, Honorable

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
John Linder

Hope, Value, Simply

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