Legal Quotes

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.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.