Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Mauer

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,

David Franks

You're going to look to see who the district attorney and police have talked to and you're going to talk to them yourself. The idea here is you don't want to rely on the work that's already been done by the government, you want to do it yourself.

Jerry Brown

You need the experience, you need the broad range of understanding that the complexity and the power of the Attorney General's Office truly requires.

Kenneth Langone

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

Judy Smith

Every American has the right to and the expectation of privacy in their private conversations. The decision by the state attorney to impanel a grand jury to investigate Linda Tripp and perhaps others concerning the recordings of private conversations will help establish that our cherished right of privacy cannot be trampled on.

Ed Koch

Eliot is the right guy to change Albany. As attorney general, he demonstrated a real commitment to reforming institutions from Wall Street to Main Street and I look forward to watching him work on reforming state government.

Andrea Tantaros

During his five years as an attorney general in Massachusetts, Bill Weld obtained over 100 convictions in public corruption cases and successfully prosecuted the top members of the organized crime families of New England.

Rick Hernandez

Before I make any kind of judgment on this, I'd better consult with the Attorney General, but there are a couple of things that might be questionable, and makes this a contractual issue,

Bill Gross

Even our attorney in Valley City is a volunteer.

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Kenneth Sheinberg

There's really no conviction. The market is churning. That's all it's doing is churning.

Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

T. S. Eliot

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Barry Hyman

Most of the growth stories are not performing today and that is how we'll go into the Fed meeting. There's still very little conviction in the market.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Jim Darling

Our defense was amazing, they rose up and shut them out in the second half.

Jeremy Trill

Our defense was a little shaky at the start, but it was the first game of the year.

Heather Earls

Our defense was a definite let down. They played better defense than we did and that was the difference.

Bob Faduski

Our defense very well stymied Hamilton most of the evening and never really gave them a good shot on goal.

Lynn Johnston

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Bobby Cox

Somebody's done a terrific job with that kid. He had a lot of pitches tonight, but they were quality. He had a purpose for every one of them. Looks like he knows what he's doing out there pretty well.

Christopher Shays

No. What I want you to do is do your job of coordination,

Christopher Shays

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Evan Wood

Sometimes I just stop for a second and go 'Okay, 13 years old, you are in a job that some people would kill for, and you have a lot of stuff going for you and you are really lucky,'

Erik Youngs

(Teaching) is the most rewarding job I've ever had. When you're in this industry, it's in your blood.

Kerah Pearman

Sometimes, they're trying to do a better job of it now so, there's some in there now.

Scott Ishikawa

Safety at some point is going to have to take precedent over convenience, but that's some things we're going to have to take a look at, whether we can do the job without really hampering traffic or not.