53 Quotes by Johnnie Cochran

If it doesn’t make sense, you should find for the defense.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It’s a very delicate thing.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children’s lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I’ve loved every minute of it.

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you’re caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

I’m from the South, where if you walk down the street and there’s somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can’t tell whether it’s a black or a white person.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.