Law Quotes

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

~ Ted Cruz

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

~ Michele Bachmann

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

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

~ Jerry Falwell

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

~ Keith O'brien

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

~ Paul Martin

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

~ Benjamin Todd Jealous

I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.

~ Janet Reno

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

~ Michael Shnayerson

Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.

~ Sam Brownback

I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.

~ Elizabeth Debicki

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

~ Marion Barry

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

~ Frank Abagnale

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

~ Bill Gates

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.

~ Antony Beevor

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

~ Ted Cruz

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

~ Robert Kennedy

Humility is of central importance I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

~ Cass Sunstein

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

~ Stephanie Herseth

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

~ Dirk Kempthorne

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

~ Soledad O'brien

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

~ William Gilmore Simms

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

~ Preet Bharara

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

~ Eric Allman

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

~ Jon Evans

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

~ Andy Grove

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

~ Vint Cerf

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

~ Stokely Carmichael

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

~ Lysander Spooner

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

~ Paul Johnson

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

~ Veerappa Moily

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

~ Nelson A. Miles

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

~ Ida B. Wells

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

~ P. J. O'rourke

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

~ Wendell Phillips

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

~ P. Sathasivam