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Would we have done the same thing if Nancy Grace had been on her show every night declaring the boys guilty?
No--because who cares what Nancy Grace says?



Brad Bannon
Def Lawyer for the Duke 3 case
2007

(after Doug Johnson threw the ball at Bobby Bowden after the game, FSU vs UF 1998)reporter "What would have happened if a Florida State quarterback threw the ball at an opposing coach?" Bobby Bowden "He would have hit him."

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” --Booker T. Washington

Love these quotes...another famous one attributed to Churchill....

He was at a function and rather the worse for drink (as you do...) when the hostess (unfortunatley her name escapes me....) said, 'Sir, you're drunk' to which Churchill replied..

Yes Madame, and you're ugly and in the morning I'll be sober

I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member

Groucho Marx

I not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens

Woody Allen


Best Regards

Goodog

Never underestimate the power of a schnook. - Boris Badenov

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
-- Bullwinkle

If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain, do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.
- David Brent

We must forgive but never forget
- Sir Edward 'weary' Dunlop

Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it
- Harry (Breaker) Morant - executed soldier and poet

Why are people so unkind?
- Kamahl

Dog must not steal from dog
- convict saying

Such is life
-Ned Kelly - bushranger

Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero.
- Viv Richards

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
- Steve Irwin

"See, Barack's been talking down to black people on this faith-based...I want to cut his nuts off." --Jesse Jackson, caught on microphone during a FOX News interview

"When we were in college we used to take a popcorn popper -- because that was the only thing they would let us have in the dorms -- and fry squirrels in the popcorn popper." --Mike Huckabee, completely freaking us out

"I'm sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It's a lot safer to do it on marijuana" --Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, speaking to high school students

"He's too snore-y and stinky, they don't want to ever get into bed with him." --Michelle Obama, on her daughters' refusal to crawl into bed in the morning with her husband Barack

"PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." --Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on why he strapped his dog to the roof his car

"Friends, the press and the government are in bed together in an embrace so intimate and wrong, they could spoon on a twin mattress and still have room for Ted Koppel. Journalists used to questions the reasons for war and expose abuse of power. Now, like toothless babies, they suckle on the sugary teat of misinformation and poop it into the diaper we call the 6:00 News. Demand more of your government. Demand more of your press." --Kent Brockman, on The Simpsons

"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."
(John McCain)

"We spent $3 million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. I don't know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue." --on wasteful congressional spending
(John McCain)

"I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?"
(John McCain, on asked if her would be a Vice Presidential Candidate - HA!!)

"Maybe that's a way of killing them." --responding to a report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during Bush's presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 8, 2008 (McCain)

"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk." --(McCain to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?")

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." --Joe Biden on Barack Obama

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. ... I'm not joking." (Joe Biden)

"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." --Vice President Dick Cheney, on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005

"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, responding to a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq who asked him why troops had to dig through scrap metal to armor vehicles, Dec. 8, 2004

"Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries." –Secretary of State Colin Powell, testifying about Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons capabilities before the United Nations Security Council, Feb. 5, 2003

"Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam".
David Hackworth

We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. . . . Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.
--Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the 1960s

While on vacation in Crawford, Texas, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush must have been drinking from the same well as Lyndon B. Johnson when LBJ got American boots stuck in Southeast Asia’s unforgiving swamps. . . . LBJ consequently lost his job and caused millions of American and Vietnamese casualties. Let’s hope that GWB isn't leading us down another rocky road.
--Col. David Hackworth, U.S. Army Retired

"I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne".

"I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda'. B.O oct 2002

"It could be next month; it could be next year. It could three years from now. It could be, but I'm confident that we will have victory in Iraq, but I'm certainly not putting a date on it. " Mcain