People Quotes

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

~ Preston Manning

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

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

~ Michael Harrington

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

~ Will Rogers

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

~ Ziggy Marley

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

~ Norman Ralph Augustine

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 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

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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

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

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

~ Jeff Duncan

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

~ Tammy Bruce

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

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

~ Trey Gowdy

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

~ Bill Gates

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

~ Joe Biden

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

~ Alex Berenson

We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system.

~ Charles Kennedy

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

~ John Mccain

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

~ Tony Campolo

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

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

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

~ Payal Kadakia

People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them.

~ Leo Varadkar

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.

~ Peter Bergen

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

~ Michael T. Flynn

The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

~ Trent Franks

I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.

~ Blake Farenthold

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

~ Coretta Scott King

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.

~ Julian Assange

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

~ Scott Turow

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

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

~ Paul Bloom

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

~ Ariel Pink