Legal Quotes

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

The more laws, the less justice.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.