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Quotes About Protections

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
~ Ralph G. Neas
Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave voters' objectives, without sacrificing our rights and protections, as the Conservatives threaten to do.
~ Barry Gardiner
The Unions: the people who brought you the weekend. And capped working hours. And employment rights and protections. And fair wages. And pensions. And ended child labour. What a bunch of greedy bastards.
~ Priyamvada Gopal
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.
~ Chris Coons
Each American has a right to be heard, and I was proud to vote to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore vital voter protections and strengthen Virginians' trust in our political process.
~ Abigail Spanberger
There's a lot that can and should be done, not just in terms of elections administration with respect to the voting rights, but the protections of voters themselves.
~ Alex Padilla
With the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, our Commonwealth is creating a model for how states can provide comprehensive voter protections that strengthen democracy and the integrity of our elections.
~ Ralph Northam
At each point of our process to repeal Obamacare, we have not lost sight of our responsibility to the most vulnerable in our communities. Safety nets and protections are important and must be maintained for those who need them most.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Science has advanced a long way in the 44 years since Roe v. Wade, and it is time that our laws reflect the undeniable truth that life begins at fertilization and that unborn citizens are entitled to the same protections as every American.
~ Luther Strange
It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.
~ Wes Streeting
For TPP to get my vote, it must benefit America's middle class, raise wages, and safeguard the consumer and environmental protections that we rely upon.
~ Dan Lipinski
Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.
~ Jared Polis
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
~ James Bovard
We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
~ Ralph Neas
All I'm suggesting is that the President, like any other U.S citizen, is entitled to constitutionally provided protections. Like due process. Like the right to fair trial. Part of the reason these constitutional guarantees were created to prevent hasty, reactionary decisions in difficult times that would undermine the fundamental philosophy of the nation. - Ben Kincaid
~ William Bernhardt
Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.
~ Richard Belzer
How I admired the life of taking pains, of living in defiance of a government that did not like you and did not want you and wanted to destroy you so that you had to build out protections for yourself with money and men, deploying armament, buying alliances, patrolling borders, as in a state of secession, by your will and wit and warrior spirit living smack in the eye of the monster, his very eye. But
~ E.L. Doctorow
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
~ Sherwood Boehlert
In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.
~ Alex Smith
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion of protections when it came obtaining permission for wiretaps and other surveillance methods.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
~ Stacey Abrams
I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.
~ Claire McCaskill
Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.
~ Conor Lamb
In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders.
~ Eric Schneiderman