339 private quotes tagged legal

“It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.” — Edward Carpenter

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“So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?” — Julie Chen

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“Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.” — Samuel Dash

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“The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.” — John Garamendi

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“Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.” — Ralph Peters

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“Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.” — Ralph Peters

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“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.” — Peter Sotos

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“Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.” — William Landay

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“We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.” — Joshua Micah Marshall

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“I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.” — Lou Barletta

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“The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.” — Salvatore J. Cordileone

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“In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.” — Salvatore J. Cordileone

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“I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.” — Mo Brooks

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“Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.” — Nelson Algren

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“I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.” — Yingluck Shinawatra

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“So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.” — Louis de Bernieres

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“We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.” — Ken Calvert

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“Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.” — Lamar S. Smith

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“A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.” — Anna Eshoo

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“Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.” — Thomas Carper

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“These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.” — Matt Dillon

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“Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.” — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

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“I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.” — Kenneth Anger

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“Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.” — Andrew Thomas

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“We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.” — Ralph Neas

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