Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Anderson

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

Duncan Hunter

In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

Douglas Hofstadter

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Angela Bassett

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Anatole France

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Anatole France

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Alvin Toffler

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Chuck Palahniuk

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Grassley

Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

Chuck Grassley

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

Chuck Grassley

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Christopher Moore

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

Anne Bishop

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Andrew Carnegie

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Andrew Carnegie

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Andrew Carnegie

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

Alyson Hannigan

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Anthony Daniels

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Anthony de Mello

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anne Parillaud

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

Andrew Taylor Still

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

Andrew Solomon

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

Andre Norton

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Andre Weil

What is crucial is there be laws.

Andrew Cuomo

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Ambrose Bierce

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

Ambrose Bierce

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.