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I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.