Legal - Quotes & Sayings
The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
Marvin AmmoriThe Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
Marvin AmmoriNothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.
Judy SmithI 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'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.
Kurt VileI think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.
Maria CantwellI'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.
J. D. SoutherPoliticians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
David MalpassEvery neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel TrillingThe 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 OssoffI did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me.
Rory CulkinThe president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
Ben Nighthorse CampbellMy first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
Tony McCoyBritain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
Heather BrookeThe right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.
John GaramendiA free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
Anna EshooThey don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
Edward Bennett WilliamsI've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.
Bruce VilanchThe settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.
Yair LapidThere's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
Jonathan TurleyThe EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.
Paul GosarWhen I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.
Robert ZoellickEvery generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
Noah FeldmanTherefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
J. D. HayworthI do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia MillettI think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.
Mark FuhrmanFor years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
Alex GibneyIf you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice at once.
Robert RinderMy father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today.
Robert RinderAs legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian BondWe support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.
Li PengMost 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 CleggOpponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrowEvery year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
Gary LockeThe Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.
Joe BacaI think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
Paul BremerI will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.
Yingluck ShinawatraA married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
Sol WachtlerI think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.
Bill FloresIf we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
Bill FloresIt is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
Bill FloresWarren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
Guy SpierEvery year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
Stieg LarssonThe reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.
Trent FranksAgainst the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tom CottonThe NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton GellmanAt Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Barton GellmanExperts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
Barton GellmanJustice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William GaddisOne of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.
Juan Enriquez