David Geffen

The epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, ‘They bullshit on the phone! I can bullshit on the phone too!’

Is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

My mother was an entrepreneur… She found being on relief humiliating. She built this business from scratch… In 1951 my mother opened this store…

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.