Kenneth Eade Quotes

War is hot, not cold.

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The years know what the days are still learning.

First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

An alibi is only as good as its details.

The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.

Why don't I have my attorney give you a call?"
Secret code for 'This conversation is over.

Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills

It is important that we note the weaknesses in our financial system, and work toward implementing solutions before the next crisis comes. Gordon L. Eade

This is going to be a lot for the Congress to swallow, even on the deck of a sinking ship.

Uncle Burt's round face, mixing bowl bangs of greying blond locks and toothless smile made him look more like an emoticon than a judge.

Animals don't do this.

He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.

If you're not looking for the right thing, you can't be disappointed if you don't get it.

He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences.

Where there's corruption in government, somebody or everybody's making a lot of money. That makes it dangerous.

Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor

Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.

What if I told you that, not only can you not beat the market, but most stocks actually lose money.

There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.

Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank's money and you're just another one of their creditors.

I'll bet you didn't think a handful of economists could save the world, did you? You thought the world would end with nuclear war or something? No, it's much more basic than that. It's more likely going to be from a disruption in the water supply, power, and from lack of food due to an economic collapse. Either that or a financial war.

Mr. Rogan, I am magician, not God.

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.

They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let's face it, they are a civilian's army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.

No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were, in it would be the souls who could bear witness to the undeniable cruelty of life, the poverty of the unwanted.

Knowles had always been a pain in the ass. A wannabe who never was and never would be.

We are all alone in this world; even in a crowd.

Litigation was war. A war that usually inflicted heavy casualties on both sides.

It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that's no guarantee that will keep you away from criminal prosecution.

It's the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.

The warning signs had been there since the crash of 2008, but after the initial shock, nothing had been done to correct the problem. Banks had been trading over $7 trillion in risky derivatives daily, as well as fixing interest rates and making bets on the rigged games. There was an ever-growing gap between the elite and all the rest of the people which had continued to develop even after the 2008 crash.

Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn't the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television.

Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king.

No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

The truth never had any shades of grey – there was always a discernible line between black and white.

Judging a book by its cover was standard practice in human relations.

Patrick Henry said 'give me liberty or give me death.' I think his famous quote makes it crystal clear that the Constitutional framework of this country values liberty as an essential element of life, worth dying for. If something is worth such a sacrifice, how can the loss of it be justified for the argument that it will make us safer to give up our liberty and our civil rights? Are we to tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of all the soldiers lost in foreign wars that it was all a big lie? That they died for nothing?

In our world does anything really make sense?

Whattaya mean you ain't no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

A tinge of panic tingled his cerebral cortex as he recalled the last greeting he had had in this country, which was not so welcoming.

We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.

We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.

Brent never trusted anyone who couldn't look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.

Sorry's not good enough. When something's broken, sorry can never bring it back.

The bar was pulsating with rock music and packed with partiers, all set to leave their inhibitions, and their sobriety, behind.

It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.

What's the goal?" asked Carlos.
"I'm glad you asked," said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we're going to save the world.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

I would say hard times call for hard measures, but the Constitution is even a greater treasure than these monuments and the great men who inspired them.

It was William Penn who said, "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that.

He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.

Sometimes the dead speak to you.

The law works in mysterious ways

Dude, this transcends politics. George W. Bush is wiping his ass with the Constitution.

And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don't know what it says, don't vote for it.

There is no room for emotion in business.

Some people don't like lawyers, that is, until they need them

Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it's used up, it is called living.

You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.

I'll take what's behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.

If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.

Responsibility comes with every relationship.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members.

Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.

He wasn't dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime.

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

Brent knew the first cardinal rule of talking to cops – don't.

As long as we're alive there is always hope.

The most innocent man's words will be used against him.

The cells of death row are filled with guys who had nothing to hide.

Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.

You will always be a puppet on someone else's line if you don't care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.

It seemed that freedom of expression had run amuck, or had run as far as the Government would allow it to go.

And you told Mr. Marsh at that time that a refinance was impossible, did you not?" "I did." Every teacher of cross-examination points out that you never ask a question that you do not know the answer to, and you never ask the question "why" because that gives the witness the opportunity to answer in a narrative, but Brent wanted the jury to hear the answer to the next question in Bernstein's own words, so he took the calculated risk. "Why was it impossible?" "Because Mr. Marsh was delinquent in his loan payments." "But Mr. Bernstein, didn't you tell Mr. Marsh about six months earlier that, in order to qualify for a loan modification, he had to be delinquent in his loan payments?" "That's for a modification, not a refinance, and that was Tentane's policy ... " "Object

Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

It just doesn't seem fair, you know? I work my ass off and she gets to live off the ruination of my financial life

Legal representation in the 21st century was becoming a risky business.

Even killers need holiday.

His sense of "justice" had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement; a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.

Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.

There is no such thing as a bargain stock.

Even in crisis, people need entertainment.

That's the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don't have much of it for this, but it's all I have in here.

I thought it wasn't winning or losing but how you played the game that matters."
"Just ask anyone who came in second place if that is true.

Guano-mo, huh? The neo-Nazi concentration camp

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

Don't you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.

You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you