The Law Quotes

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty, that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.

Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy.

I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids.

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion.

We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out "justice."

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I love the president Donald Trump. He supports law enforcement and I'm very humbled. I said publicly, recently, pardon or no pardon, I will be with him until the end.

People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts.

The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.