Quotes About Legal

was done fucking about in the shadows—it was time to get legal.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

If they resisted, what damage could a period of legal uncertainty do?

Guidance has less legal force than regulations,

Guidance has less legal force than regulations, but it still carries considerable weight with bank examiners.

Legally, the decision had to be Bank of America's.

This formulation puts all power in the hands of those who are most easily offended—or at least those who claim to be. The offense itself is the weapon. Legal torts require damages; societal torts merely require a claim of damages, without evidence.

Boundaries got redrawn at the point of a sword, and the legal frame followed.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

Denmark and Estonia both refused to prosecute the Danske Bank case when we filed in 2013.

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Luxembourg is the first adopter in Europe of a legal and regulatory framework recognizing that space resources are capable of being owned by private companies.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

If we can't get where we need to go to protect people through our regulatory channels, through our legislative process, then unfortunately what we have left is our legal process.

The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.

The issue of prohibiting pardons shouldn't be a political one, but a legal and moral one that relates to the details of the specific case before the court.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.