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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

Rafael Correa

EthicsLawAmericanProfessional

I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

Foster Friess

WorkCommunityTravelLawWorldGay

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

TrustPeopleLawDemocracyStand

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

Fidel Castro

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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

Rachel Sklar

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I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

Daniel J. Evans

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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Floyd Abrams

PeopleLawThinkResultsUnderstand

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

Pat Robertson

CultureWarLawDemocracyJudgeTop

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Daniel Radcliffe

ParentsLawStock MarketClassKid

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

Fabrizio Moreira

PeopleLawThroughSomethingGoing

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

LawWhoThinksHeInexorable

Nobody stands above the law.

Ehud Olmert

LawNobodyAboveStands

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

Adam McKay

LawWorldBetterLaughYearGet

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

Opal Tometi

EducationLawLaw EnforcementPoverty

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Edward Bennett Williams

LawFriendsYouStopPresidentYour

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton

RelationshipRespectManLawSize

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

PeopleLawSocietyAcceptNormal

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Edward Levi

WordsLawPersuasionArtsChanging

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

Adam Cohen

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.

Edward Snowden

GoodPeopleMeLawCarePolitical

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge

PeopleLawWishSometimesMoreThan

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

GovernmentLawBuildingResolutions

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Ben Stein

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