Law Quotes

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Order is heaven's first law.

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

The Law is the Law!

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

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.