- Family
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a refugee.' And yes, he did live in Egypt for three and a half years. But it was not illegal. If he had broke the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.
- Government Agencies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that the majority of my wildfire prevention legislation was signed into law today.
- American Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020