Courtroom Quotes

Courtroom Quote of the day

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

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

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

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

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

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.

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.

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

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

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

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

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

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

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.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

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

I love being in a courtroom.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

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.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all the tropes, and you know all the expressions.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.