F. Lee Bailey quotes
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“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : "Newsweek" Magazine, April 17, 1967.
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“In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.”
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“The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.
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“I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.
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“If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.”
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“Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.”
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“I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : "F. Lee Bailey: Paper proves OJ Simpson's innocence". www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2011.
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“I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.
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“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.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.
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“Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : New York Times, September 20, 1970.
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“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.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1972.
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“I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.”
-- F. Lee BaileySource : New York Times, September 20, 1970.
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“The memory of the American public is about six weeks.”
-- F. Lee Bailey
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