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Quotes About Jurisdiction

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
~ Lionel Murphy
People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.
~ Chuka Umunna
We've got to make sure tech companies - all of them - aren't taking steps that will place content beyond the reach of the courts.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
~ Peter Thiel
Sea respetuoso. —De acuerdo. —Sea educado. Fuera del puesto estamos en sus manos. Es una jurisdicción civil. —Los civiles me son familiares. En una ocasión, conocí a uno.
~ Lee Child
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
~ Edgard Varese
No woman can be gotten with child without some knowledg, consent and delight in the acting thereof." Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May, 1653, to the Union (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1858), 123;
~ Jill Lepore
State legislative and administrative bodies are not field offices of the national bureaucracy," she wrote. A quarter century later, her view was generally that of the majority.
~ Joan Biskupic
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
~ William Weld
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.
~ Cliff Stearns
We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.
~ Joni Ernst
There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.
~ Paul Gosar
We need to reinstate the idea of federalism.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
~ Barton Gellman
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.
~ Scott Pruitt
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.
~ Sergei Lavrov
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
~ Robert Mueller
But what about Rule Eleven? You have to have a factual basis for filing a lawsuit in federal court.
~ Lisa Scottoline
And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.
~ Salman Rushdie
LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction. LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
~ Tom Allen