Quotes About Law

You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

I'm a deputy sheriff.

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

I defend non-criminal detention.

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.