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Quotes About Statutory

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.
~ Brendan Sullivan
We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.
~ Bill Shorten
So that's the story of how I committed statutory rape less than twenty-four hours out of prison--on my birthday no less
~ Joanna Wylde
Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be properly restricted.
~ Dominic Grieve
The Fed has neither the clear statutory authority nor the mandate to anticipate and deal with risks across our entire financial system.
~ Henry Paulson
While the statutory members of the NSC, in some cases, run departments that execute foreign policy, the NSC staff at the White House was intended to coordinate policy rather than run it.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
~ George J. Mitchell
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
~ Ari Melber
the crucial question becomes which theory of textual interpretation is compatible with democracy. Originalism unquestionably is. Nonoriginalism, by contrast, imposes on society statutory prescriptions that were never democratically adopted.
~ Antonin Scalia
In statutory interpretation there is, for example, the rule of lenity, whereby ambiguity in a criminal law is resolved in favor of the defendant; and in interpretation of private contracts there is the rule that ambiguity will be construed contra proferentem, against the party that drafted the instrument.
~ Antonin Scalia
A specific statutory provision that contravenes a general constitutional injunction or prohibition is invalid.
~ Antonin Scalia
In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.
~ Raymond Kethledge
It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
~ John Reid
A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
~ Sam Graves
Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law in the Torah it holds a special eminence.
~ Herman Wouk
Retirement: statutory senility.
~ Emmett O'Donnell
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.
~ Dick Durbin
There is everywhere the life of the people, everywhere liberty, everywhere a free atmosphere, everywhere popular supervision, everywhere responsibility. Some people speak of bosses. There were no bosses at all in the Socialist party. Supervision was exercised or can be exercised over those so-called bosses. It used to depend--and it still depends--on the members to invoke the relevant statutory regulations. A strong supervisory control is organized by them and depends only on their initiative.
~ Leon Blum
And as if, finally, providence had not made provision for this human necessity: so that, lacking letters, all nations in their barbarous period were first founded on customs, and [only] later, having become civilized, were governed by [statutory] laws!
~ Giambattista Vico
The Federal Reserve is committed to fulfilling our statutory mandate of stable prices and maximum employment.
~ Jerome Powell
It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.
~ George T. Conway III
However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.
~ Brett Kavanaugh