legal Quotes

“My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.”

“The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.”

“Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.”

“Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.;Tommy Davidson;learning 41461;We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.;Candice S. Miller;learning 41462;Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.;Michael Stuhlbarg;learning 41463;Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.;Ari Graynor;learning 41464;That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.;Thomas Carper;learning 41465;From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.;Seth Low;learning 41466;I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.;William Green;learning 41467;I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.;Jo Durie;learning 41468;I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.;Mick Mars;learning 41469;I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.;Timothy Spall;learning 41470;I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.;Jaime King;learning 41471;I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.;Jaime King;learning 41472;Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.;Frankie Muniz;learning 41473;I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.;Bruce Weber;learning 41474;I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.;Todd Rokita;learning 41475;It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!;John Davidson;learning 41476;I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.;Linda Cardellini;learning 41477;I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.;Mary Elizabeth Winstead;learning 41478;As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.;Jhene Aiko;learning 41479;Always keep learning. It keeps you young.;Patty Berg;learning 41480;We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.;Burt Rutan;learning 41481;Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.;Jeff Healey;learning 41482;When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.;Samuel Foote;learning 41483;I just want to keep learning.;Simon Kinberg;learning 41484;Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.;Larry Speakes;learning 41485;I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.;Duffy;learning 41486;We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.;John Hope Franklin;learning 41487;I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.;Sarah Drew;learning 41488;In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.;Ethan Allen;learning 41489;To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.;Eliza Haywood;learning 41490;So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.;Sonny Terry;learning 41491;I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.;Flavius Josephus;learning 41492;Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.;Nelson Goodman;learning 41493;Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.;Gates McFadden;learning 41494;The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.;Humphrey Carpenter;learning 41495;I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.;Tony Williams;learning 41496;Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.;Robert Martin;learning 41497;Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.;Anne Ford;learning 41498;Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.;Lucretia Mott;learning 41499;When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.;Edward Cocker;learning 41500;Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.;Henry Longhurst;learning 41501;I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.;Lloyd Bentsen;learning 41502;Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.;William Allan;learning 41503;For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.;Penelope Leach;learning 41504;For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.;Fabrice Luchini;learning 41505;No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.;Archibald Wavell;learning 41506;We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.;Tom Conway;learning 41507;I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.;Steven Wright;legal 41508;Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.;Calvin Coolidge;legal 41509;A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.;Robert Frost;legal 41510;Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.;Will Rogers;legal 41511;Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.;Plato;legal 41512;People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.;Will Rogers;legal 41513;Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.;Robert Louis Stevenson;legal 41514;The more laws, the less justice.;Marcus Tullius Cicero;legal 41515;Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.;Honore de Balzac;legal 41516;Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.;Ambrose Bierce;legal 41517;In law, nothing is certain but the expense.;Samuel Butler;legal 41518;Advertising is legalized lying.;H. G. Wells;legal 41519;Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.;Robert E. Lee;legal 41520;A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.;George Herbert;legal 41521;Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.;Jean de la Bruyere;legal 41522;The trouble with law is lawyers.;Clarence Darrow;legal 41523;Justice delayed is justice denied.;William E. Gladstone;legal 41524;Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.;Charles Lamb;legal 41525;He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.;Charles Lamb;legal 41526;All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.;Joseph Conrad;legal 41527;It is legal because I wish it.;Louis XIV;legal 41528;Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.;George Herbert;legal 41529;You can't learn everything you need to know legally.;John Irving;legal 41530;Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.;Jeremy Bentham;legal 41531;Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.;Alan Dershowitz;legal 41532;I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.;Oliver North;legal 41533;Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.;Addison Mizner;legal 41534;Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;legal 41535;I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.;Nicole Kidman;legal 41536;Misery is the company of lawsuits.;Francois Rabelais;legal 41537;People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.;Norman Ralph Augustine;legal 41538;Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.;Jack Kingston;legal 41539;The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.;Christopher Darden;legal 41540;If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.;Loni Anderson;legal 41541;A good lawyer is a bad Christian.;John Lothrop Motley;legal 41542;Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.;Addison Mizner;legal 41543;I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.;Daniel Goleman;legal 41544;The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.;Christopher Darden;legal 41545;We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.;Thomas Friedman;legal 41546;Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.;Aaron Allston;legal 41547;I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.;Max Walker;legal 41548;It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.;Carol Burnett;legal 41549;Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.;Dennis Hastert;legal 41550;The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.;Gavin Rossdale;legal 41551;I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.;Janet Reno;legal 41552;The good lawyer is the great salesman.;Janet Reno;legal 41553;I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.;James E. Rogers;legal 41554;I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.;Anita Hill;legal 41555;One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.;Anita Hill;legal 41556;Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.;Don Henley;legal 41557;Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.;Tammy Bruce;legal 41558;To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.;Felix Frankfurter;legal 41559;As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.;Jay Alan Sekulow;legal 41560;I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.;Jay Alan Sekulow;legal 41561;I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.;Tom Glazer;legal 41562;A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.;Sol Wachtler;legal 41563;To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.;Potter Stewart;legal 41564;As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.;Bill Williams;legal 41565;Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.;Charles W. Pickering;legal 41566;I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.;Johnnie Cochran;legal 41567;All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.;Ian Hislop;legal 41568;As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.;Sam Waterston;legal 41569;It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.;Arthur Baer;legal 41570;I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.;Samuel Alito;legal 41571;A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.;William Dunbar;legal 41572;They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.;Edward Bennett Williams;legal 41573;I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.;Mary Roberts Rinehart;legal 41574;If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.;Lord Halifax;legal 41575;From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.;John Harington;legal 41576;Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;legal 41577;Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.;Ayn Rand;legal 41578;Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.;Michael Jordan;legal 41579;Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.;Ellen Key;legal 41580;You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.;Hillary Clinton;legal 41581;The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.;Andrew Jackson;legal 41582;Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.;P. J. O'Rourke;legal 41583;In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.;Colin Powell;legal 41584;Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.;James Patrick Murray;legal 41585;I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.;Sidney Poitier;legal 41586;After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.;George W. Bush;legal 41587;The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.;Henry Miller;legal 41588;No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.;Joseph Addison;legal 41589;Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.;Robert Byrd;legal 41590;In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.;Julian Assange;legal 41591;As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.;Bob Filner;legal 41592;We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.;Romeo LeBlanc;legal 41593;The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.;Jon Stewart;legal 41594;But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.;Ted Demme;legal 41595;Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.;Ted Nugent;legal 41596;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;legal 41597;It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.;Marco Rubio;legal 41598;I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.;James Joyce;legal 41599;We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.;Marco Rubio;legal 41600;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.;Joseph Ratzinger;legal 41601;However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.;Hassan Nasrallah;legal 41602;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.;Pope Benedict XVI;legal 41603;Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.;Evander Holyfield;legal 41604;I do not believe abortion should be legal.;Herman Cain;legal 41605;Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.;Franklin P. Jones;legal 41606;I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.;Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;legal 41607;All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.;Sienna Miller;legal 41608;I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.;Sienna Miller;legal 41609;Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.;Rahm Emanuel;legal 41610;These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.;Michael Bloomberg;legal 41611;We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.;Michael Bloomberg;legal 41612;In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.;Rick Warren;legal 41613;So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.;Neil Gaiman;legal 41614;I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.;Tony Campolo;legal 41615;I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.;Tony Campolo;legal 41616;I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.;Tony Campolo;legal 41617;I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.;Elton John;legal 41618;Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.;Kevin Mitnick;legal 41619;As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.;Julian Bond;legal 41620;Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.;Gus Van Sant;legal 41621;Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.;James Otis;legal 41622;I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.;Alan Dershowitz;legal 41623;I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.;Alan Dershowitz;legal 41624;And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.;Monica Lewinsky;legal 41625;All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.;Sonia Sotomayor;legal 41626;Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.;Tom Hanks;legal 41627;I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.;Harvey Weinstein;legal 41628;Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.;John Sununu;legal 41629;You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.;Theresa May;legal 41630;Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?;Frederic Bastiat;legal 41631;It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.;Ron Wyden;legal 41632;When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.;Ron Wyden;legal 41633;I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.;Tahar Ben Jelloun;legal 41634;Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.;Nick Clegg;legal 41635;I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.;Ryan Reynolds;legal 41636;I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.;Bobby Darin;legal 41637;The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.;Warren Farrell;legal 41638;I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.;Helen Reddy;legal 41639;I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.;Stockwell Day;legal 41640;In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.;Aly Khan;legal 41641;Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.;George Soros;legal 41642;Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.;Herbert Croly;legal 41643;I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.;Chester Brown;legal 41644;Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.;Georgios A. Papandreou;legal 41645;I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.;Penn Jillette;legal 41646;We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.;Julian Assange;legal 41647;Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.;Andrew Johnson;legal 41648;Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.;Preston Manning;legal 41649;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.;Joseph Ratzinger;legal 41650;And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.;Dennis Banks;legal 41651;You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.;Robert Caro;legal 41652;What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.;Robert Mueller;legal 41653;In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.;Richard Stallman;legal 41654;If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.;Felix Adler;legal 41655;The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.;Conrad Black;legal 41656;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;legal 41657;We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will”

“The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.”

“The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.”

“The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.”

“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.”

“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.”

“Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.”