Quotes About Legality

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

Obamacare was ruled to be unconstitutional. We've always known that Obamacare was unconstitutional.

Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?

Working for over 12 hours, 30 days a month and being paid after 90 days, and in many cases even more than that, isn't only unethical but is against working laws.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.

Nobody stands above the law.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.

There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].…You'll go back to a position like they had where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it."—interview on MSNBC, March 30, 2016

DT—three hours later] "The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb."—donaldjtrump.com, March 30, 2016

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.