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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
Thomas Hobbes"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."
William Godwin"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
Louis D. Brandeis"It is legal because I wish it."
Louis XIV"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift"Common sense often makes good law."
William O. Douglas"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."
Christopher Darden"It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins."
Arthur Baer"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
Honore de Balzac"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."
Addison Mizner"Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character."
Robert E. Lee"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."
Oliver North"More law, less justice."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
Lenny Bruce"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
Norman Ralph Augustine"Law is born from despair of human nature."
Jose Ortega y Gasset"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
Will Rogers"I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care."
Camille Paglia"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
Henry David Thoreau"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
Calvin Coolidge"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
Julius Caesar"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
Alan Dershowitz"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
Samuel Butler"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
Steven Wright"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
Christopher Darden"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
William Gaddis"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today."
Robert Rinder"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
Charles W. Pickering"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
Jeremy Bentham"That which is not just is not law."
William Lloyd Garrison"It is right to give every man his due."
Plato"A good lawyer is a bad Christian."
John Lothrop Motley"In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming."
Maajid Nawaz"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing."
Tom Carper"People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology."
Ruth Ozeki"The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure."
Jonathan Zittrain"I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood."
Kirsten Gillibrand"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
James Patrick Murray"Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction."
Lysander Spooner"Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government."
Roger Wicker"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."
Charles Lamb"One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now."
Anita Hill"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Voltaire"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
Edmund Burke"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
George Herbert"Fairness is what justice really is."
Potter Stewart"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
Joseph Conrad"We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain."
Naval Ravikant"The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'"
Bob Barr"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."
Abbie Hoffman"I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration."
Rand Paul"When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts."
Vivek Wadhwa"In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit."
Toomas Hendrik Ilves"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits."
John Podesta"Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes."
Tammy Bruce"I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct."
Samuel Alito"Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent."
Aaron Allston"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
Robert Louis Stevenson"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns."
Louis XIV"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Plato"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."
Charles Lamb"We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws."
Luis Gutierrez"Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors."
Mara Wilson"Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense."
W. E. B. Du Bois"There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books."
Candace Camp"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
Chester Brown"I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.'"
Kierston Wareing"As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions."
Adam Cohen"I don't care what's legal and what's not. I'm going to play the way I play."
Brian Urlacher"Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets."
Eric Greitens"History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state."
Mike Simpson"My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found."
Chrystia Freeland"I saw the legal system close up, and I understood that it was built by lawyers for lawyers, and unless you have an attorney to navigate it, you're not going to be successful."
Shari Redstone"I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success."
Judy Sheindlin"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
Ambrose Bierce"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
George Washington"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
Edmund Burke"I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer."
Anita Hill"Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!"
Belinda Johnson"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Advertising is legalized lying."
H. G. Wells"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
Thomas Friedman"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman."
Sol Wachtler"The trouble with law is lawyers."
Clarence Darrow"Punishment is justice for the unjust."
Saint Augustine"A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped."
William Dunbar"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."
Will Rogers"Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved."
Orson Pratt"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
John Perry Barlow"Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one."
Mo Ibrahim"I didn't grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay."
Abby Johnson"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society."
Murray Rothbard"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none."
Andrew Jackson"Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet."
Michael Jordan"What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral."
Lisa Scottoline"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
George Sutherland"Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity."
Noah Feldman"The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe."
Orson Pratt"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages."
Tony Campolo"I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone."
Debbie Stabenow"As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country."
Opal Tometi"In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails."
John McCain"Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth."
Andrew Yang"For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords."
Nydia Velazquez"We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America."
Marco Rubio"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
George Herbert"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."
Addison Mizner"As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win."
Bill Williams"The good lawyer is the great salesman."
Janet Reno"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
Edmund Burke"In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions."
Jan Schakowsky"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
Dorothy Day"Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God."
Amy Coney Barrett"Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors."
Yochai Benkler"State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey."
Harvey Fierstein"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."
Clarence Darrow"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."
Charles Morgan"One with the law is a majority."
Calvin Coolidge"Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose."
Gilbert Parker"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
Saint Augustine"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life."
Jim McGovern"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Robert Byrd"The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security."
John Garamendi"When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history."
Kenneth Langone"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic."
Robert Lighthizer"Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite."
Heather Brooke"When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!"
David Twohy"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."
Warren E. Burger"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device."
Lawrence Lessig"Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status."
Gary Locke"Poland is ready to admit every refugee who arrives in Poland, fleeing the war in the Middle East, no matter their faith or economic status, provided that they comply with our legal regulations and want to stay in our country."
Andrzej Duda"Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior."
Leonid Hurwicz"Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose."
Elton Gallegly"But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions."
Jack Herer"I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart."
Amity Gaige"Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay."
Gus Van Sant"You can't learn everything you need to know legally."
John Irving"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
Nick Clegg"As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not."
Rodrigo Duterte"I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide."
Elena Kagan"The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly."
Janet Reno"In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal."
Rick Warren"There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come."
Linda Ronstadt"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
Carol Burnett"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
Mark Twain"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
Jean de la Bruyere"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."
Herbert Spencer"A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy."
Anna Eshoo"The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security."
Jon Porter"For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist."
Daniel Ek"I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions."
Sidney Poitier"I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control."
Brian Armstrong"I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena."
Bernice King"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
Constance Baker Motley"I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us."
Tony Campolo"What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation."
Naomi Klein"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
Alexis Korner"There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before."
Daniel Ek"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation."
Joshua Micah Marshall"The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting."
Lydia Millet"After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed."
Bob Casey, Jr."With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series."
Martin Campbell"Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen."
Paul Ricoeur"Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life."
Brian Sandoval"Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal."
Val Kilmer"The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information."
Bryant H. McGill"My legal name is Mulroney Lapham, but politically, 'Mulroney Lapham' just didn't work. Too much for a lawn sign."
Caroline Mulroney"The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter."
Shari Redstone"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call."
K. A. Paul"Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them."
Shirley Chisholm"Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent."
Michael Moriarty"Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved."
Herbert Croly"A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case."
Brendan I. Koerner"The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice."
Lee Kuan Yew"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."
Edmund Burke"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
Edmund Burke"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."
Daniel Goleman"The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language."
Michael Hayden"And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing."
Dennis Banks"I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes."
Alan Dershowitz"I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process."
Robin Williams"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
Thucydides"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
J. M. Coetzee"I was a fan first; then I became a wrestler, then a promoter, then a businessman and everything that goes with it - marketing, merchandise, licensing, legal, everything. But I've always enjoyed it."
Jeff Jarrett"Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life."
Robert Kennedy"As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a captive immediately."
Malcolm Nance"It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots."
Virgil Goode"We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them."
John Madden"In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything."
Richard Stallman"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."
Pope Benedict XVI"It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still."
Ernestine Rose"What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas."
Robert Mueller"Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions."
Albert Bushnell Hart"In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system."
Paul Gillmor"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
John Clayton"The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt."
Joe Baca"I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior."
Serge Lang"Being an independent reporter with legal knowledge fits me better than being an attorney who is representing one side or one goal."
Ari Melber"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
James Bovard"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."
Sonia Sotomayor"If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice at once."
Robert Rinder"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations."
J. William Fulbright"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. -Tim Berners"
Lee"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
Ayn Rand"From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition."
John Harington"Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom."
Don Henley"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"Taste cannot be controlled by law."
Thomas Jefferson"I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money."
Mary Roberts Rinehart"This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out."
Jason Momoa"So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice."
Tarana Burke"In many cases, in order to protect organizations, administrators often move abusers around, discount victim statements, stonewall victims in administrative processes, and/or offer legal settlements with non-disclosure agreements to victims with the express intent of protecting the institution and ridding themselves of the victim."
Anthea Butler"Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems."
Chris Grayling"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."
Felix Adler"Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population."
George Bernard Shaw"The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government."
Lysander Spooner"We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation."
London Breed"The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things."
Ezekiel Emanuel"In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box."
Carles Puigdemont"Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism."
Peter Bergen"Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations."
Laura Wasser"When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn't respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there."
Neal Katyal"We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall."
Geert Wilders"Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that's unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don't say to the American people you deserve better than you're getting? That's not the practical we want."
Nina Turner"The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society."
Rosa Luxemburg"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?"
Elliot Richardson"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."
James Denton"But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal."
Ted Demme"By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties."
Wilhelm Frick"Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate."
Caleb Cushing"We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way."
Ibrahim Rugova"In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product."
Bob Ney"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."
Igor Ivanov"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."
Wilhelm von Humboldt"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
Lionel Trilling"Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another."
Jon Corzine"People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits."
Michelle Alexander"Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom."
Loretta Napoleoni"We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe."
Angela Merkel"The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, for adjudicating the cases of these terrorists, when possible. Those efforts would be severely undercut by moving the detainees to the United States."
Mike Pompeo"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
Felix Frankfurter"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
Edmund Burke"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."
Gavin Rossdale"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."
Jay Alan Sekulow"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."
Michel de Montaigne"My legal bond with the A.K.P. may have ended the day I took the presidential oath of office, but my bonds of love have never ended and never will."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan"Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed."
Evgeny Morozov"I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends."
Hanya Yanagihara"You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at."
Robert Caro"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
Andrew Johnson"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
James Joyce"I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor."
Samuel Dash"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism."
Warren Farrell"I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization."
Linda Ronstadt"I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year."
Ed Lee"Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science."
Alexandra Elbakyan"I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo."
Rachel Sklar"Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American."
Jeff Denham"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."
Vincent Bugliosi"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."
Vincent Bugliosi"I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents."
Bobby Darin"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Joseph Rotblat"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."
Pat Travers"I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers."
Chuck Grassley"Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents."
John Sununu"There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights."
Dick Durbin"I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life."
Paul Bremer"Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people."
Ziggy Marley"Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel."
Reid Hoffman"Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals."
Lysander Spooner"Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously."
Evander Holyfield"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
Ian Hislop"I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out."
Max Walker"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
Potter Stewart"We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means."
Benjamin Netanyahu"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity."
George Soros"The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied."
Abraham Lincoln"I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married."
Trisha Yearwood"It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
Edward Carpenter"So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world."
Jerry Greenfield"We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people."
Bob Ney"Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie."
William Landay"Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past."
Jose Rodriguez"Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union."
Coretta Scott King"In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law."
Aly Khan"I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it."
Alberto Fujimori"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."
Martin Bashir"I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them."
Elton John"Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that."
Leonard Little"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad."
Wayne Coyne"It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads."
Jon Porter"For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state."
Nursultan Nazarbayev"I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about."
Andy Gibb"While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences."
Boris Trajkovski"I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online."
Evan Hunter"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."
Bobby Rush"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."
John Forbes Nash, Jr."Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information."
Roger Wicker"Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18."
Tori Amos"We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process."
Ron DeSantis"Parliamentary sovereignty - the right to pass laws as the supreme legal authority in the land, including laws that limit the powers of the executive - has been hard-won over hundreds of years. We trample on it at our peril."
Nicky Morgan"On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy."
Nancy Keenan"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
Robert Frost"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
Loni Anderson"I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age."
Johnnie Cochran"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
Louis Nizer"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these."
Tom Glazer"Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy."
Jack Kingston"Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it."
Ron Paul"The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him."
Jon Stewart"The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled."
Mahershala Ali"Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges."
Robert Kiyosaki"Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal."
Linda Sarsour"Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions."
John Yoo"I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits."
Bruce Vilanch"As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments. -Miriam Defensor"
Santiago"I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view."
Bhagat Singh"As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth."
Ted Cruz"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."
George W. Bush"They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country."
Tom Tancredo"Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer."
Jon Porter"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents."
John Linder"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."
Felix Adler"While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here."
Kit Bond"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
Clare Short"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people."
Kenneth Anger"I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction."
Stockwell Day"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."
Scott Turow"I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem."
Ed Rendell"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."
Anthony Weiner"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
Bobby Scott"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."
Henry James Sumner Maine"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."
Mike Pence"My ultimate goal is my son, and a lot of other kids, to not have to grow up the way I grew up. I just give them a different outlook on something. I want to let them know they can have this much fun by doing something legal like me rapping for instance."
Lil Baby"We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart."
Romeo LeBlanc"We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries."
Nikki Haley"Misery is the company of lawsuits."
Francois Rabelais"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."
Sam Waterston"I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care."
Nicole Kidman"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can."
Janet Reno"I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility."
James E. Rogers"I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state."
David Zabel"While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11."
Benjamin Wittes"The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us."
Michelle Alexander"There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music."
Daniel Ek"Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire."
Philippe Petit"I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things."
Alice McDermott"Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience."
Robert Casey"In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country."
Colin Powell"As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications."
Brian Sandoval"I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language."
Sonny Bono"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
Constance Baker Motley"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
Constance Baker Motley"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
Constance Baker Motley"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system."
David Minge"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"
Julie Chen"I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life."
Todd Akin"Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975."
Sally Kirkland"The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters."
Tom Tancredo"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."
Franklin P. Jones"When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy."
Alexei Navalny"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
Henry Miller"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Joseph Addison"They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster."
Edward Bennett Williams"As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't."
Jay Alan Sekulow"I'm clearly not a major legal genius."
John F. Kennedy Jr."We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream."
Ted Cruz"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
Hillary Clinton"Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it."
Lysander Spooner"If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing."
Vince Vaughn"There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women."
Tracy Chapman"Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right."
Cory Booker"We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens."
Joe Biden"My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial."
Judy Smith"I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone."
Michael Moriarty"No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend."
Susan B. Anthony"Much of the work legal executives do has to be supervised by a solicitor, irrespective of the experience or ability of the individual. In practice, this is a major disincentive to legal executives setting up their own high street practices. Even when they can do the work, they are still tied to solicitors."
Dominic Raab"Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident."
Rashida Tlaib"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."
Neil Gaiman"I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way."
Norman Lamm"And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away."
Peter Sotos"It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing."
Frank Shorter"And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media."
Monica Lewinsky"The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency."
Tom Tancredo"But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart."
Lee Greenwood"Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations."
Jim Sensenbrenner"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
Lamar S. Smith"The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined."
Jan C. Ting"Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this."
Sadiq Khan"I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week."
James Spader"Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it."
Naval Ravikant"People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby."
Jordana Brewster"If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them."
Samuel Adams"We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice."
Sonia Sotomayor"I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession."
Janet Reno"Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics."
Sebastian Vettel"Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives."
Sonia Sotomayor"Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information."
Samuel Dash"We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court."
Lindsey Graham"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
Hassan Nasrallah"Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need."
Wendy Kopp"You see, what makes us different than the rest of the world fundamentally is our American respect and legal appreciation of individual rights and individual property. And, I emphasize - individual."
Trish Regan"People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring."
William Lashner"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."
Anatoly Chubais"However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition."
Adam Rickitt"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."
Jan de Bont"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile."
Tahar Ben Jelloun"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere."
Dave Rowntree"Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security."
J. D. Hayworth"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
Jack Abramoff"My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts."
Bill Scott"We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles."
Bill Scott"One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York."
Mike Judge"I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease."
Betty Hill"We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework."
Li Peng"Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system."
Cherie Blair"Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion."
Cliff Stearns"We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. -Ban Ki"
moon"While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war."
John Yoo"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."
Preston Manning"Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice."
Sadiq Khan"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
Ellen Key"Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration."
John Kennedy"I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music."
Mel B"Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes."
George Papandreou"Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage."
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi"In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives."
Jose Rodriguez"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
Nelson Algren"One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism."
Edward Burtynsky"If we can find a way to enforce our laws and keep people from coming into our country illegally while maintaining a strong legal immigration system, I think that's going to benefit everyone. If you come here illegally, and you commit a crime, you're not going to be able to stay in our country."
Ronna McDaniel"Once I graduated college, I did a couple of different sort of unique internship positions, if you will. I spent three months in my mother's office, who was then the CEO of our company, and I really got to just sit in every meeting that she had, and I would write down questions on a yellow legal pad."
Stephanie McMahon"In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable legal basis for the complaint to not reach Congress."
Asha Rangappa"Just because you can buy an exploding target, does not mean that it is legal to mix and explode."
Dan Bilzerian"Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college."
Elton Gallegly"Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo."
Zach Wamp"Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country."
Kendrick Meek"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge."
Julian Bond"These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run."
Michael Bloomberg"These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities."
Matt Dillon"The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years."
Virginia Foxx"The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda."
John Yoo"Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda."
John Yoo"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
Patricia Ireland"Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate."
Cliff Stearns"I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement."
Hans Frank"It's really hard to argue that bitcoin doesn't have many legitimate benefits to companies that are legal businesses when you have Dell and Expedia and all these companies now accepting it."
Brian Armstrong"Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery."
George Segal"Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?"
Frederic Bastiat"If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs."
Bruce Willis"If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia."
Vladimir Putin"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."
Orson Pratt"Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law."
Cass Sunstein"We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."
Ralph G. Neas"Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions."
Jose Maria Aznar"However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system."
Kenneth Clarke"I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were."
Nick Johnson"It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning."
Ron Wyden"I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party."
Hans Frank"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
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