339 private quotes tagged legal

“Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.” — Elton Gallegly

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“Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.” — John Yoo

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“The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.” — John Yoo

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“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.” — John Yoo

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“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.” — John Yoo

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“Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.” — Albert Bushnell Hart

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“Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.” — Zach Wamp

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“It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.” — John Linder

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“Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.” — Cass Sunstein

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“Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.” — Orson Pratt

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“God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.” — Orson Pratt

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“Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.” — Jose Maria Aznar

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“The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.” — Tom Tancredo

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“The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.” — Tom Tancredo

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“They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.” — Tom Tancredo

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“They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.” — John Perry Barlow

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“Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.” — Jim Sensenbrenner

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“My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.” — David Eagleman

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“Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.” — Val Kilmer

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“So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.” — Clare Short

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“Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.” — J. M. Coetzee

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“She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“We 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 Peng

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“The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.” — Tim Pawlenty

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“The only people that should vote should be legal.” — Pam Bondi

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