Quotes about cochran (15 Quotes)


    The governor is down there and best understands the needs. They know Senator Cochran has been here for a long time people have entrusted him to come up with a legislative strategy.

    A friend of mine suggested it to me, ... Maybe he had the intuition or foresight to realize what was about to happen. I also noticed immediately that there were a lot of things out of place with the investigation, but I never thought it would lead to a book. It wasn't until later, when I was in teleconferences with guys like Johnnie Cochran and (Barry) Scheck, that I realized how big it had become.

    Rather than betting on a conviction, which is rather unseemly, an interesting exercise would be to figure out other proposition bets on the trial that have nothing to do with the outcome, similar to prop bets on the Super Bowl, like which team will win the coin toss. Who will be the first attorney to attempt a Johnnie Cochran rhyme or which defendant will testify first

    I'm particularly honored to be associated with an institution that, I believe, is honoring Mr. Cochran not because he had movie star status and not because he had celebrity clients but because when he had clients that he believed in, he did a remarkable job putting his passionate, passionate voice to work.






    You get a lot of Johnnie Cochran roles. Those kind of things fall to you naturally because of the color of your skin. You have to give them what they want. Yeah, I was a black actor on the show and Johnnie Cochran came, but I had to learn how to do Johnnie Cochran, make it funny.

    I make substitutions based on who can hit a free throw. Keith Cochran is our most accurate free throw shooter. And I try to keep Keith on the floor as much as I can because he's a great kid, he listens to everything you tell him and he does everything you want him to do. We need to have people going to the line who can hit free throws. We focus on free throws every day in practice.


    When Senator Cochran signed on as a co-sponsor to the original bill, it was a regular occurrence practically an assumption that Congress would pass large omnibus spending bills at the end of each year. Chairman Cochran proved last year that it was still possible to pass individual appropriations bills annually.

    I think it is unfortunate that some of the proposals being discussed single out the Appropriations Committee in regard to earmark reform. Chairman Cochran hopes any reform measures that the Senate adopts will provide parity across committees and reflect Congress's constitutional responsibility to direct the appropriation of funds.

    The university is a strong economic engine for Mississippi, and the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park will be an integral part of moving the region ahead.

    This is not only the administration's view. Thomas Cochran, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the New York Times that it's dumbfounding that the IAEA, after saying that Iran for 18 years had a secret effort to enrich uranium and separate plutonium, would turn around and say there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program. If that's not evidence, I don't know what is.



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