Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government. "

Related Quotes:

" To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. "

Elena Kagan

Integrity

Honor

People

" We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. "

" We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. "

" Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. "

" It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. "

" Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. "

" There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States. "

" I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal. "

" The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank. "

Muhammad Yunus

Change

Structure

" No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That's a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud. "

" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "

" We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. "

" A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. "

" The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. "

Constance Baker Motley

Legal

Freedom

Significant

" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "

Edmund Burke

Legal

Justice

" Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. "

" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "

Jonathan Swift

Break

Laws

" Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. "

" But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. "

" Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. "

" Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. "

" A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential. "

" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "

" I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion. "

" While everyone is entitled to a little vacation now and then, America's top legal officers should adhere to basic measures to increase accountability and restore the public's trust in government. "

" The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. "

" By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom. "

" Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer. "

" God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. "

" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "