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Quotes About Legal

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.
~ Matthew Desmond
Poland is ready to admit every refugee who arrives in Poland, fleeing the war in the Middle East, no matter their faith or economic status, provided that they comply with our legal regulations and want to stay in our country.
~ Andrzej Duda
The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.
~ Jon Ossoff
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
~ Opal Tometi
October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
~ Trey Gowdy
People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.
~ Chris Grayling
I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.
~ Laurence D. Fink
Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.
~ Terrell Owens
You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.
~ Matt Taibbi
The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
~ Virginia Foxx
Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to be tempered with mercy.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
~ Tim Berners Lee
Sir, we're maiming both our employees and our customers. Our legal department can't keep up with the suits. Something needs to be done." "You're right," Dempsey finally conceded. "Increase our contributions for tort reform.
~ Tim Dorsey
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
~ Matt Dillon
I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
~ Paul Watson
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
~ Samuel Butler
What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
~ Vladimir Putin
I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
~ Sally Yates
Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled.
~ Kris Kobach