Quotes About Law

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts.

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

I had spent the prior eight years working at my firm primarily representing big chemical companies, helping them comply with all the different state and federal laws.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

The integrity of our government, our Republic, fundamentally relies on the principle that no person, not even the president or the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is above our laws.