The Law Quotes

Common law is common right.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

I was the law and order.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.

Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.

Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

Law and order embrace on hate's border.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.