Lawyer Quotes

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Almost everybody embraces life.