Attributions
It's been said. . .
"The response was not only robust but persistent. He had come to the determination that the controversy surrounding him was hampering his ability to be effective in this position."
A Pentagon spokesman announcing the resignation of Defense Dept. attorney Charles Stimson, who had been criticized for urging corporate executives to make pro bono lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees “choose between representing terrorists or--- representing reputable firms”
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• •“Here are two women. They don't look alike. They don't always vote alike. But here are two women.”
U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lone female justice on the current Court, remembering how the Court looked to the public before Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement last year
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• •“You think, ‘What did I get into? What do I gotta do to get out of this?”
Special agent Bill Shore in the Pittsburgh FBI office, on an (unsuccessful) email scheme in which a “hit man” tells lawyers and other professionals there is a $50,000 contract out on their lives, but nothing will happen if they pay the “hit man” that much or more
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• •“As he continues to expand health care to all Illinoisans, Gov. Blagojevich should receive credit for insisting on market reforms … not tort reforms.”
Dean Martinez, secretary of the Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation, on aspects of the Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 2005 that required insurers to disclose the data used to determine risks and set premiums, which brought additional insurers to the state