Law Quotes

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

The law has no power over heroes.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Law is a bottomless pit.

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.