Education Quote by Sonny Bono

“With all due respect” is doing heavy lifting here: it’s the polite wind-up before the punch. Sonny Bono flatters lawyers for their “intricate knowledge” and then swivels, almost gleefully, into disgust. The rhythm matters. “You break down words to the nth degree” starts as admiration for precision, but in Bono’s mouth it becomes an accusation: that legal language isn’t clarity, it’s a kind of ritual disassembly designed to stall, to win, to make reality negotiable. “And it goes on and on” is the clincher, a musician’s complaint about a bad solo - virtuosity that forgets the song.

The subtext is pop-world impatience with institutions that claim neutrality while exercising power. Bono came from entertainment, a realm where meaning is supposed to land fast: a hook, a chorus, an emotional takeaway. The courtroom is the anti-hook, full of footnotes, caveats, and endless parsing. His “rather disgusting” isn’t moral squeamishness so much as revulsion at the spectacle of language being used as cover - words stretched until responsibility slips through the seams.

Context sharpens it: Bono wasn’t just Cher’s partner; he became a politician during a period when copyright, celebrity, and Washington were colliding. Artists were increasingly forced to meet their industry and their government on legal terrain. His frustration reads like someone realizing that in America, culture runs through contracts, and contracts run through people who can make “meaning” last forever - or never arrive at all.