Edwin Meese Quotes

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.

Edwin Meese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1931

Topics

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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

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The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

John Lewis

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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Andy Grove

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Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.

Michael Connelly

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My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

Merry Clayton

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I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Moffat

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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Sting

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That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Rocco Buttiglione

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I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

Jon Cryer

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I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.

Dickey Betts

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Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

Donald Sinden

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