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" When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering. "
Jose Angel Gurria
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" Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting. "
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" Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. "
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" It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. "
Samora Machel
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" Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process. "
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" These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. "
Michael Bloomberg
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" You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast. "
Jose Angel Gurria
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" It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. "
Ron Wyden
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" In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. "
Bobby Scott
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" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "
Ted Cruz
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" If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them. "
Samuel Adams
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" 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. "
Neil Gaiman
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" Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything. "
Andrew Breitbart
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" Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. "
Abbie Hoffman
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" Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know! "
Belinda Johnson
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People
" Law is born from despair of human nature. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Law
Legal
" Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. "
Plato
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Legal
Justice
" Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. "
George Herbert
Deceive
Physician
Lawyer
" I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. "
Robin Williams
Think
Process
Legal
" We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. "
Thomas Friedman
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Who
Technology
" Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. "
Iain Banks
People
You
Society
" Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. "
Jeremy Bentham
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Only
Law
" A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case. "
Brendan I. Koerner
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News
Organization
" We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool. "
Missy Elliott
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Money
" We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them. "
John Madden
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Television
You
" These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities. "
Matt Dillon
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Want
" In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. "
Colin Powell
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" Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. "
Thomas Carper
Broken
Band
Action
" I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care. "
Nicole Kidman
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Really
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" Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country. "
Opal Tometi
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Family
" We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens. "
Joe Biden
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