Edward Bennett Williams Quotations

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

You understand, of course, that I can only get you access.

Money, power, and public relations. My wife is rich, and I wouldn't know what to do with power, but give me those press clippings!

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.