Quotes About Law

I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences.

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

By withholding critical details and stonewalling congressional inquiries, President Obama seems to be hiding whether or not he and others broke U.S. law by sending $1.7 billion in cash to Iran.

I went to law school with President Obama.

Only Congress can amend the law, not President Obama nor the courts.

No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.

President Trump is committed to democracy and rule of law in our hemisphere.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by an act of Congress or a court.

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.