Quotes About Law

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

As long as U.K. remains member of the E.U., it should respect the E.U. law.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

We are not going to put a law enforcement official onto a plane to take them off... to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger. We can't do that.

The CAA is not a law to remove someone from the country. Union home minister Amit Shah has said that it is to give citizenship. And I agree with it to that extent. It is to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries and not to remove anyone from the country.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

We are not going to repeal Obamacare.

China itself has said repeatedly that they will and have been conforming to international law.

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

The Democrats keep repeating over and over again, 'the President is not above the law.' I've said it before, 'the President is not above the law' but he damn sure shouldn't be below it either.

I don't need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army... operates according to the international law guidelines.

The one report I will believe will be the report of Robert Mueller. He's a totally impartial law enforcement investigator who will come to the truth, whether it was collusion or it wasn't collusion. But when a partisan group puts together a report, it doesn't really hold much credibility for me.

From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.