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All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

You can't build a society without law.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

Lawyers are for only what is right.