Francis Lee Bailey citáty

“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.”

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F. Lee Bailey

Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1972.

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”

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F. Lee Bailey

Newsweek, 17 April 1967.

“I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules.”

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F. Lee Bailey

New York Times, 20 September 1970.

“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.”

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F. Lee Bailey

Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1972.

“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.”

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F. Lee Bailey

New York Times, 20 September 1970.