Quotes About Legal

You ought to sue that son of a whore

declarations and clearance documents

Steve Martini

Because poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.

Poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.

have sued for an injunction against Jaws.

Setting fire to a person and seeing whether he burns is a dumb way to determine his guilt.

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, "What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.

I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!

You answer because some hyper-ambitious legal associate in New York would be happy to answer, if you don't—and that's why the market defines the work.

Restraining orders work best, however, with the sort of person who would never require a restraining order.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

After all, as the old saw has it, lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.

It is the natural ambition of the power holder to cast a criminal light on legal resistance and even non-acceptance of its demands, and this aim gives rise to specialized branches in the use of force and the related propaganda. One tactic is to place the common criminal on a higher level than the man who resists their purposes.

It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.

Fourth Amendment, which requires a judge-issued warrant for an arrest; the Fifth Amendment, which requires a grand jury indictment before a person is held for trial; and the Sixth Amendment, which says that a person can be imprisoned only after conviction by a jury based on proof beyond a reasonable doubt.