Quotes About Law

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.

I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

Our government strives to create an independent and impartial judiciary that applies the law without bias or favoritism. And we are incorporating into our security forces all Iraqis who have taken up arms to defend their families and communities.

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

One of the things that I noticed in my private law practice was the fact that so many people had gotten ripped off and would come into my office, whether it was a scam, whether it was predatory business taking advantage of them. So when I went to the General Assembly I started working on laws that helped to protect the consumer.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.

I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.