Quotes About Law

Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.

The Official Secrets Act 1989 may need reforming for the digital era, but I would argue that at its heart there should be protection for whistleblowers.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. We have to denounce and eradicate it.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.

Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

I met with an Automaidan activist who was part of a self-appointed group drafting a lustration law for parliament, which would exclude from political life people who actively participated in Yanukovych's criminal regime.

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

As much as I'd like to register Jesus to vote in Georgia, the law says I can't do that.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.