"When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision."

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Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#Jobs Quotes #Party Quotes #Government Quotes

“Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.
“There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.”
“I look for challenges to keep me going.”
“I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”
“Religion without joy-it is no religion.”
“But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.”
“But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.”

Source : "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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