Howard Simon People Quotations

This is just more posturing by Florida politicians to look tough on crime and on people with past felony convictions. What does denying funds to low-income people to save on energy costs have to do with fighting crime?

If they attempt to do what he apparently wants to do, the people of Naples and Collier County, Florida, are in for a whole series of legal and constitutional problems and a lot of litigation indefinitely into the future.

There are other ways to protect people in the state of Florida without resorting to this barbaric kind of botched executions.

Governments don't tax the exercise of constitutional freedoms, that's why we have municipal budgets and publicly funded police departments. People don't pay to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is contradictory to how the Constitution works.

If he wants to build a town and encourage like-minded people to come and live there, that's fine. We get into problems where he tries to exercise governmental authority.

This thoughtful and careful opinion will be very important in the history of Florida because it is a strong affirmation of the privacy rights of the people of Florida and a strong rebuke to politicians who attempt to interfere in medical decisions that should be left to all of us and are simply not the business of politicians.

The commission may have a right to do it, but it may not be necessary. People don't get elected to public office with a promise to not get bored.

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

There are hundreds of thousands of people in Florida who do not have the right to vote. They have committed crimes many, many years ago, and they have turned their lives around.