Quotes About Legal

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

June 28, 1940, Congress passed the Alien Registration Act, and Biddle decided to persuade Harrison, whom he knew from legal ties in Philadelphia, into public service. The act made it mandatory, for the first time in American history, for every alien living in the United States to register and be fingerprinted.

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial;

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial; the diversity lottery is not.

know about me via legal means. But you cannot demand that I provide you with it. And if you press,

don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it for me. The dying man looked

In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported.

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution's case. It's up to the judge to make sure that they don't pull any fast ones.

We got rich lawyers... The best lawyers on the planet.

What law enforcement always does is over-charge, and no one can fight it, so the people will plead down and you're stuck within the system.