Quotes About Law

I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.

Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'

The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time is not the law of the land.

As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.