Courtroom Quotes

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. (Warren Christopher)
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. View quote
Mae West
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. View quote
William Rehnquist
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. View quote
Warren E. Burger
In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scales If the price is right, there's time for more appeals The strings are pulled, the switch is stayed The finest lawyers fees are paid And a rich man never died upon the chair. View quote
Phil Ochs
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. View quote
Clarence Darrow
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. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. View quote
Jon Ronson
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. View quote
Ernst Zundel
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. (Lance Ito)
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. View quote
Lance Ito
Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. View quote
Lance Ito
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. View quote
Star Jones
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. View quote
Samuel Dash
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. View quote
Johnnie Cochran
Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. View quote
Johnnie Cochran
Leland Weston: "Never take a position unless you are certain it can be defended any onslaught. That may sound like good advice to a general, but then, a courtroom is nothing more then a very civilized war." View quote
Michael Crichton
Debate is an art form. It is about the winning of arguments. It is not about the discovery of truth. There are certain rules and procedures to debate that really have nothing to do with establishing fact-which creationists have mastered. Some of those rules are: never say anything positive about your own position because it can be attacked, but chip away at what appear to be the weaknesses in your opponent's position. They are good at that. I don't think I could beat the creationists at debate. I can tie them. But in courtrooms they are terrible, because in courtrooms you cannot give speeches. In a courtroom you have to answer direct questions about the positive status of your belief. We destroyed them in Arkansas. On the second day of the two-week trial we had our victory party! View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
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. View quote
Harper Lee
There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. (Harper Lee)
The courtroom oath-to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth-is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. View quote
Woody Harrelson
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. View quote
Lindsey Graham
There's just one person who's allowed to ask, or answer, rhetorical questions in my courtroom -- and that's me! Understand? No, don't answer! There you go again. View quote
Judith Sheindlin