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This is America, not a banana republic.

Vincent Bugliosi

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Vincent Bugliosi
Age: 80 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 18
Died: 2015
Died: June 6
Attorney
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Hibbing
Minnesota
Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr.
Vincent T. Bugliosi
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The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for supposedly being punished after death is that you had free will. If you didn't have free will and you did what God predetermined, then how can he punish you?
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.
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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
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A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children and babies who've died horrible violent deaths because of George Bush's war.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert.
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And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.
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The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
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I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.
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Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.
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[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.
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There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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