- Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
- Nina Bawden on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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.
- Robert Casey on Legal
- The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.
- Conrad Black on Legal
- The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.
- Tom Tancredo on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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.
- The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
- John Clayton on Legal
- The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
- Christopher Darden on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- The good lawyer is the great salesman.
- Janet Reno on Legal
- The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
- Salvatore J. Cordileone on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
- Christopher Darden on Legal
- The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
- Dorothy Day on Legal
- The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
- Constance Baker Motley on Legal
- 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.'
- 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 on Legal
- The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
- Lindsey Graham on Legal
- The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
- Henry Miller on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- The more laws, the less justice.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- The only people that should vote should be legal.
- The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
- Gavin Rossdale on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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.
- Tim Pawlenty on Legal
- 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.
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell on Legal
- 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 McGill on Legal
- The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.
- The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.
- Tom Tancredo on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- The trouble with law is lawyers.
- Clarence Darrow on Legal
- The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
- David Minge on Legal
- 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.
- 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.
- There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.
- Dave Rowntree on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
- Edward Bennett Williams on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- 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.
- Rahm Emanuel on Legal
- 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 on Legal
- To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
- Potter Stewart on Legal
- 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.
- Elena Kagan on Legal
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