Quotes About Law

How the PAP chooses to conduct its politics is something for the PAP to decide. The public are equally entitled to respond as they deem fit - within the remit of the law - and at the ballot box.

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

Of course Trump thinks he is above the law. For his entire life, he has been able to say and do whatever he felt like saying or doing - not just without consequence, but he has been able to say or do whatever he felt like saying or doing - and rise up all the way to the position of President of the United States.

In this country, if you are supposed to show up in court and you don't go, there are real consequences. A subpoena from Congress is no different.

We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.

With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man's prosperity and survival, but so also is exchange.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there's reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.

The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.