We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.
In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.
The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.
Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.
It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.
Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank’s money and you’re just another one of their creditors.
To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.
The power to kill does not come without responsibility
Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.
You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you
Walking’s a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
What they actually did matters more than what they said
Unless we do something and do it quickly, we may be going back to an economic stone age.
When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.
There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.
Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.
If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.
I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.
Look innocent. Have hope.” “Okay.” “And remember…” “What?” “Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted.
Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.
The truth can’t hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.
Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.
Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?
The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.
We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.
The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.
Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.
Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.
The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.
Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.
Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?
Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.
Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor
Everything in life has a yin and yang – an interconnected, complementary and opposite force. Just as we need the light to distinguish it from the dark, we recognize injustice in the world demands justice to provide a balance.
I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.
Fair has nothing to do with it. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.
He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.
Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.
Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option.
Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.
As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.
The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.
Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills
It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.
Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.
The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.
It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could “turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.
The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.
Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.
Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.
Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt.
Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.
, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.
I guess that makes everyone in boots on the ground a murderer
From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.
He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.
We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.
There’s never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.
Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.
Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.
Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.
The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.
Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.
This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.
It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.
Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.
He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..
When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law.
He wasn’t dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime.
How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?
A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing.
But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.
The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.
The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or ‘gets going’.
That’s the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don’t have much of it for this, but it’s all I have in here.
You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.
Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction
When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!
We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.
It was like the beginning of the end of the world.
What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked,” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.