Quotes About Law

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.

I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

You just hope that your kids find what they love to do and abide by the law and make good decisions. The best you can do is instill such values in them.

There is no more important institution in our country than the Department of Justice.

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

I do want to make clear that I am personally committed to the integrity of the Department of Justice. Since becoming acting attorney general, I have run the department to the best of my ability, with fidelity to the law and to the Constitution.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

I think I did four 'Law & Order' episodes. I did two 'Criminal Intent,' one mothership, and one 'SVU.'

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.