Laws Quotes

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

Guy Standing

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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Michael Badnarik

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If we are going to change this country's laws, we need to have pro-life members of both parties.

Dan Lipinski

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My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

Hilda Solis

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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

John Paul Stevens

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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Barbra Streisand

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Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods to Jewish sensibilities and dietary laws and then spreading them.

Gil Marks

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Stuart Chase

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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

George Washington

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Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Tom Rice

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The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

Eric Holder

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New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

Tom Golisano

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A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

Eliot Spitzer

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The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Ron Chernow

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I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

David Gross

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Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.

Mikko Hypponen

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The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

Charles Hodge

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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Michael Moore

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Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Louis MacNeice

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Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Bill James

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To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

Joshua Slocum

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Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences.

Alfred A. Montapert

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Sunlight is better than secrecy when it comes to making laws.

Dick Durbin

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