Top 75 Courtroom Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Courtroom Quotes from famous people such as Eric Holder, Dan Abrams, Nancy Grace, Ralph Northam, Sheldon Whitehouse, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights t

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder
Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby suffocating independent thought and opinion. There is nothing ‘reasonable’ about that.
Dan Abrams
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ – big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn’t even have air conditioning.
Nancy Grace
The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn’t start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family’s farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.
Ralph Northam
A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted – even upended – when the Constitution or laws may require, where the comfortable can be afflicted and the afflicted find some comfort, all under the shelter of the law.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.
Dick Durbin
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
Mary McGrory
I’d like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
Patsy Cline
I read a lot when I’m away. I love courtroom dramas and I’m always looking for new authors.
Bruce Forsyth
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don’t need a gun – and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.
Robert Zubrin
I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.
Robert Shapiro
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
Neil Gorsuch
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something – and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too – you’re going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don’t suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
Jon Ronson
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge’s chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.
Ernst Zundel
There’s an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.
Chesa Boudin
I just play it safe when it comes to television because it is WWE’s intellectual property. But it is literally my legal name, like on my ID. My name hasn’t been Cody Runnels since I was 17. But it’s theirs. At no point would I ever want to go into a courtroom with a company I have love and admiration for.
Cody Rhodes
And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that’s very important for the American public to know.
Lance Ito
I don’t think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they’re going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.
Marcia Clark
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
Lisa Blatt
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
Charles Manson
The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up in white tie doing the foxtrot.
Robert Rinder
Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer’s acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office.
Jamey Sheridan
I love soap operas – the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives – Jessica Fletcher, ‘Columbo,’ ‘Perry Mason,’ ‘L.A. Law.’ Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program – a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
Peter Ackroyd
Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.
Jeffrey Toobin
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.
Robert Shapiro
That’s the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!
John Grisham
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West
For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years, I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.
Marcia Clark
There’s not one film that I’ve ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one – even ‘A Few Good Men’ because it’s an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.
Rob Reiner
And I’ve always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you’re just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I’d be a trial lawyer myself.
Scott Bakula
If I had a billion dollars, that's not going to keep me

If I had a billion dollars, that’s not going to keep me out of the courtroom.
Isaac Wright Jr.
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.
John Sununu
When you have a child victim, I don’t think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
Nancy Grace
Police officers must act quickly to seize wrongdoers and obtain evidence while protecting themselves and bystanders. It is easy to second-guess their search-and-seizure decisions in a secure courtroom.
William Barr
I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.
Marcia Clark
It didn’t matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.
Isaac Wright Jr.
Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that’s all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, ‘If you are looking for justice, don’t go to a courtroom.’ That’s just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.
Scott Turow
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who’s telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person’s own biases.
Lance Ito
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there’s a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
Lance Ito
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it’s going to roll over my dead body.
David Souter
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Don Henley
By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don’t get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That’s why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.
Joe Jamail
Defendants would groan whenever they saw me enter a courtroom because I had a reputation for coming armed with the facts and for winning cases.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
If you’re going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don’t misinform.
Marcia Clark
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don’t watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
Elizabeth Strout
No matter how superficially fair the judge is, he is still the complete autocrat in the courtroom, and he still comes from the ruling class.
David Dellinger
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
James Kirkwood
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures – a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
Harry Browne
I love being in a courtroom.
Kamala Harris
If you have a camera in the courtroom, there’s no filtering. What you see is what’s there.
Lance Ito
Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes.
Hirokazu Kore-eda