Quotes About Legality

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant.

Unfortunately, law and justice are not always synonymous" -H.W. Marsworth

Who's going to open the gates of heaven to some slob with his entrails all hanging out and dripping on the carpeting? From the sixteenth century up until the passage of the Anatomy Act, in 1836, the only cadavers legally available for dissection in Britain were those of executed murderers. For this reason, anatomists came to occupy the same terrain, in the public's mind, as executioners. Worse, even, for dissection was thought of, literally, as a punishment worse than death.

Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.

The law may be an ass, but it is a disinterested ass, and it can weigh harms without the self-serving distortions of the perpetrator or the victim.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.

poseer narcóticos con fines de venta, llevar a cabo delitos para los cuales se organizaron, entre otros, contra la salud en su modalidad de posesión de estupefacientes con fines de comercialización, lo que constituye dato inequívoco, que demuestra la conducta típica consistente en organizarse.» Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

Yes, America is a nation of immigrants - but the immigrants have to enter legally.

We must end illegal immigration, period.

The law is immoral.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Ef maður vill stela í þjófafélagi, þá verður að stela samkvæmt lögum; og helst að hafa tekið þátt í því að setja lögin sjálfur.

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit by committing a crime. If a small burglary is likely to improve his legal position, at least temporarily, one may be sure he has been deprived of human rights.

I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.