Quotes about Legal

“Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.”

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

“The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.”

“For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.”

“Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.”

“Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.”

“Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.”

“Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.”

“I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.”

“Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'”

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.”

“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.”

“Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.”

“The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting.”

“We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.”

“Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.”

“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.”

“On Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country, anti-women's health politicians continue to make it clear that they will stop at nothing to end access to a safe, legal abortion.”

“I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.”

“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.”