6 Quotes & Sayings By Ted Olson

Ted Olson is the United States Solicitor General and Chief Legal Counsel for President George W. Bush. Prior to his appointment, he served as Associate White House Counsel and Special Assistant to the President and as Dean of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law from 2002 - 2005. He was a partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher from 1994 until 2002, when he became a senior partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where he worked on national security issues Read more

Mr. Olson has been a member of The ABA Commission on Ethics and Professional Responsibility since 2004 and a member of the Board of Directors for Common Sense Media since 2005. He is a frequent speaker on legal ethics and litigation issues.

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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it. Ted Olson
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center. Ted Olson
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been. Ted Olson
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. Ted Olson
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Ted Olson