339 private quotes tagged legal

“The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.” — Virginia Foxx

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“Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.” — Cliff Stearns

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“I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.” — Todd Akin

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“Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.” — Sally Kirkland

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“Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.” — Lawrence Lessig

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“You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.” — Anatoly Chubais

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“I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.” — Andy Gibb

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“And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.” — James Denton

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“Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.” — Nina Bawden

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“I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.” — Bill Frist

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“I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.” — Chuck Grassley

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“Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.” — Francis Parker Yockey

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“But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.” — Jack Herer

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“Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.” — Jon Corzine

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“Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.” — Wayne Coyne

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“However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.” — Kenneth Clarke

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“We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.” — Bob Ney

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“Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.” — J. D. Hayworth

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“When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.” — Patricia Ireland

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“Let's create a legal system that can work.” — Sam Brownback

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“I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.” — Samuel Dash

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“The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.” — Vincent Bugliosi

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“A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.” — Vincent Bugliosi

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“I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.” — Bruce Sterling

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“Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.” — Elton Gallegly

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