190 Quotes on Legal

• Don't test my patience, I have zero non-infringable rights and I'm legitimate lightning legal

  Author: Mason Creechatt

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: John Yoo

• 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.

  Author: John Yoo

• 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.

  Author: John Yoo

• 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.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• 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.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• 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.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

  Author: Scott Turow

• 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.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• 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.

  Author: Pat Travers

• 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.

  Author: Boris Trajkovski

• 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.

  Author: Thucydides

• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• 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.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• 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.

  Author: George Sutherland

• 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.

  Author: John Sununu

• 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.

  Author: Cass Sunstein

• 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.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• 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.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• 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.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• 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.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• 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.

  Author: George Soros

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• 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.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• 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.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• 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.

  Author: Clare Short

• We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• 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.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

  Author: George Segal

• 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.

  Author: Bobby 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.

  Author: Bill Scott

• Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

  Author: Bobby Rush

• 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.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• 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.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• 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.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• 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?

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• 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.

  Author: Ed Rendell

• I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Above all, 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.

  Author: Joseph Ratzinger

• 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.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• 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.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• 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.

  Author: Jon Porter

• 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.

  Author: Jon Porter

• 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.

  Author: Jon Porter

• 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.

  Author: John Podesta

• 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.

  Author: Li Peng

• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Author: Mike Pence

• The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

  Author: Tim Pawlenty

• 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.

  Author: Kilari Paul

• Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

  Author: James Otis

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• 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.

  Author: Bob Ney

• 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.

  Author: Bob Ney

• We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

  Author: Ralph Neas

• For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

  Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

• However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• 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.

  Author: John Nash, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: James Murray

• 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.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• 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.

  Author: Constance Motley

• King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

  Author: Constance Motley

• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

  Author: Constance Motley

• The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

  Author: Constance Motley

• 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.

  Author: Michael Moriarty

• Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

  Author: David Minge

• The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

  Author: Henry Miller

• 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.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• 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.

  Author: Joshua Marshall

• Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

  Author: Preston Manning

• 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.

  Author: Henry Maine

• It is legal because I wish it.

  Author: Louis Louis XIV

• 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.

  Author: Leonard Little

• It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

  Author: John Linder

• I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• 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.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• 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.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• 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.

  Author: Tim Lee

• 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.

  Author: Romeo LeBlanc

• I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

  Author: Serge Lang

• 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.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

  Author: Alexis Korner

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Val Kilmer

• 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.

  Author: Aly Khan

• Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  Author: Ellen Key

• 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.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• 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.

  Author: James Joyce

• Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• 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.

  Author: Nick Johnson

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Johnson

• 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.

  Author: Elton John

• I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• 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.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• 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.

  Author: Igor Ivanov

• 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.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• 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.

  Author: Evan Hunter

• 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.

  Author: Wilhelm Humboldt

• 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.

  Author: Evander Holyfield

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• 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.

  Author: Betty Hill

• But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

  Author: Jack Herer

• 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.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• 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.

  Author: Albert Hart

• 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.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  Author: Harold Greene

• 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.

  Author: Chuck Grassley

• 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.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• 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.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• 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.

  Author: Ruth Ginsburg

• 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.

  Author: Andy Gibb

• 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.

  Author: Elton Gallegly

• 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.

  Author: Elton Gallegly

• 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.

  Author: Neil Gaiman

• 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.

  Author: J. Fulbright

• 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.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

  Author: Bill Frist

• 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.

  Author: Hans Frank

• 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.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

  Author: Bob Filner

• 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.

  Author: Warren Farrell

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• 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.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• 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.

  Author: Matt Dillon

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Ted Demme

• 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.

  Author: Stockwell Day

• The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

  Author: Dorothy Day

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Dash

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Dash

• I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

  Author: Bobby Darin

• 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.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• 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.

  Author: Herbert Croly

• 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.

  Author: Wayne Coyne

• 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.

  Author: Jon Corzine

• Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

  Author: J. Coetzee

• You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

  Author: John Clayton

• 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.

  Author: Kenneth Clarke

• 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.

  Author: Carlo Ciampi

• 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.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

  Author: Julie Chen

• The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

  Author: Robert Casey

• Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

  Author: Robert Casey

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Carper

• 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.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  Author: Ben Campbell

• 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.

  Author: Robert Byrd

• 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.

  Author: Warren Burger

• 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.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• 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.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• 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.

  Author: Chester Brown

• 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.

  Author: James Bovard

• 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.

  Author: Jan Bont

• I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

  Author: Sonny Bono

• While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

  Author: Kit Bond

• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Michael Bloomberg

• We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

  Author: Michael Bloomberg

• 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.

  Author: Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Author: Martin Bashir

• 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.

  Author: John Barlow

• And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

  Author: Dennis Banks

• Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

  Author: Jose Aznar

• In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

  Author: Julian Assange

• We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

  Author: Julian Assange

• 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.

  Author: Kenneth Anger

• Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

  Author: Nelson Algren

• 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.

  Author: Felix Adler

• 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.

  Author: Felix Adler

• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Author: Joseph Addison

• 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.

  Author: Jack Abramoff

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