The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.