Jeffrey Toobin famous quotes

Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Practice #Looks #Massachusetts

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,
-- Jeffrey Toobin

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#United States #World #Surveillance

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Kings #Gun #Law

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Careers #Long #World

Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Believe #Giving #Accomplishment

Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Practice #Looks #Massachusetts

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Long #Judging #Reports

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.