Quotes About Law

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

The militarization of the police is obviously not a secret. And the militarization of the force is to circumvent Posse Comitatus.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

Granting amnesty to those who willfully broke the law makes a mockery of our legal system and encourages even more lawlessness - potentially more severe crimes than entering the U.S. illegally.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

I believe in the Constitution.

I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.