Quotes About Rights

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.

And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

We need to protect other transsexuals.

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.