Peter Benenson

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. Peter Benenson It’s the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to [...]

Melvin Belli

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

F. Lee Bailey

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules. F. Lee Bailey Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee. F. Lee Bailey

Gloria Allred

The more I know about men the more I like dogs. Gloria Allred

Carl Albert

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. Carl Albert

George Carman

Law is a very addictive profession. George Carman Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes. George Carman Exercise caution, as I have advised [...]

Lloyd Cutler

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything. Lloyd Cutler Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms [...]

Lloyd Norton Cutler

It’s the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made. Lloyd Norton Cutler

Floyd Abrams

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. Floyd Abrams The question at the end [...]

Elliott Abrams

There isn’t any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what’s going on in Nicaragua. Elliott Abrams I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. Elliott Abrams

Bella Abzug

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. Bella Abzug All of the men on my staff can type. Bella Abzug I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. [...]