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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
- Police Officers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to law school to help people.
- General Assembly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.
- Embargo
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.'
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- Nov 07, 2020