- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.
- Nov 07, 2020
If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an undercover cop, blending in with the public, looking like a black militant or a long-haired hippie yet having a gun on my hip, a badge in my wallet, and able to enforce the law. To me, that was the neatest thing in the world. It was also challenging.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to their risky investments, the big banks have a history of breaking the law whenever it suits their purpose, which is to make more money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The House Judiciary Committee is a great place to promote our core principles of constitutionally limited government, individual freedom and the rule of law.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm honored to have the support of Attorney General Bondi. She has been a champion for constitutionally limited government in Florida and across the nation. Our state is fortunate to have a leader so dedicated to the rule of law.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am pleased to be endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Like Sheriff Joe, I believe that illegal immigration is a major problem that undermines the rule of law.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am tired of seeing real criminals, with lots of victims being ignored, while traditional law enforcement is busy going after perpetrators of victimless crimes such as those involved in the Silk Road Marketplace.
- Enactment
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- Nov 07, 2020