At Least It's an Ethos

More quotes, this time from Prof. Int'l Law (AG) and Prof. EU Law (RB), respectively.

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“Nobody move...I’ve got another slide. This is like getting extra candy.”

“You and I can conclude a treaty dividing up the territory of the United States, but it wouldn’t hold up because neither of us has the power to do so. Well, at least I don’t have the power to do so, I don’t know your biography well enough.”

“We know that with prisoners of war, you can’t keep them forever. At least we used to know that.”

“It was adopted in 1789. I guess it was fairly early in the history of the United States. That was supposed to be a joke.”

“There is nothing more exciting than the drama of jurisdiction.”

“The United States has a free-speech fetish.”

“It quacks like a bond.”

“Turns out saving is really cool. It’s cool because it’s magic.”

“Visa doesn’t like you.”

“It’s as if high fructose corn syrup is in the credit cards.”

“If you trade down a little bit...I drive a Jetta.”

“I’m going to sound like Don Rumsfeld now, but we have to know something before we know we’re uncertain.”

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“If you think tariff law practice is boring, Agriculture law is the essence of boring.”

“It took a German to bring this case. It took a German to bring Protestantism, and it took a German to bring this case.”

“Undertaking is the official EU term of art for enterprise. You’d think there are funeral parlors all over Europe.”

“The DaimlerChrysler merger is very cute.”

"I still occasionally take valium when flying that has an expiration date in 1999."

“The British taste is so bad, it shouldn’t be surprising that they allow all sorts of substitutes for cocoa.”