“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.” IfsMenStatesFacesLawJusticePoorCrimeEqualFairsIdealsConstitutionNobleLawyerTrialsEmphasisPoor ManTribunalsAccusersFair Trial Author:Hugo Black
“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensStatesBeautifulUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesPromiseBenefitsVoteVictimValuableLawyerFraudValuable Things Author:Shirley Chisholm
“While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesCreatingBusyLawyerEngineersBusier Author:Akio Morita
“Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesFieldsAbsolutesCourtLawyerSupremeBackgroundsSupreme CourtQualifiedUnqualified Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison