Legitimacy Quotations

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

We're in uncharted territory. This is the first time we've seen mass protests concerning the legitimacy of a person who's been elected.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

We shall never recognize the legitimacy of a Zionist state created on our soil. But if you are willing to accept the principle of a long-term truce, we are prepared to negotiate the terms.

The outgoing Senate has lost credibility and public trust over the past few years. The incoming senators will be hard pressed to cultivate a semblance of legitimacy given the ongoing crisis.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Phoenix coming on board gives it a real relevancy and legitimacy that they are going to help move the ball forward in a meaningful way.

If they fail to agree on a common position and action is taken without the authority of the Security Council, the legitimacy and support to any such action will be seriously impaired, ... If, on the other hand, they can come together even at this late hour to address this threat in a united manner and they show compliance with the previous resolutions, then the council authority will be enhanced and the world will be a safer place.

I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our elections and have now, for the fourth time in the fourth state, attempted to do what they can to remove democracy from America.

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.

But they can notify the user so he can question the legitimacy of the subpoena.

If the action is to take place without the support of the council, its legitimacy will be questioned and the support for it will be diminished,

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

There is every reason to believe that the election has been held in conformity with universally-recognized standards, and its legitimacy is beyond any doubt.

Today, a leader with extraordinary legitimacy takes office and we hope to have the best of relations. We have excluded nothing from our talks.

History is slipping through our fingers. To me, being a townie, we always had so little legitimacy to any art in this community. Real legitimacy to an artist is having his legacy preserved.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I think that the filmmakers entering the field today are from the first generation to openly challenge the legitimacy of religion.

I think that this is the best experience you could have with a television-associated tour, as far as legitimacy is concerned. I know a lot of people might have a problem with it because of its association with young American pop culture. But it's not a dumb, American pop culture, it's just young.

I think there is a big question about the legitimacy issue on campus.

Starship Farragut has proven it's legitimacy as a respectable film project. Within six months, they produced their series trailer starting from scratch and this is a significant achievement. God Speed Starship Farragut!

Looking for legitimacy as an actor, I wasn't,

Looking beyond the question of legitimacy of action, there is a problem of rules and therefore a credibility risk for the country,

It is damaging to the legitimacy of the confirmation process to suggest the examination of a nominee's record, as well as support for or opposition to a nominee, is in any way religiously motivated,

When states decide to use force, not in self-defense but to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the Security Council,

We've had countless offers for our property, but we wanted something that would make a difference in the community. And a hospital gives the city a legitimacy that nothing else we've got so far has.

to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

The real story is that the fans are tied to Elvis by the same loyalty that he showed to them, ... He did show an extraordinary sense of identification with the fans. He had an almost mystical belief that all of his strength -- and his very legitimacy -- came from his fans.

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

You can look at who owns the building. The zoning of the property. The shape of the property. How far you are from various attractions. It's being able to check the legitimacy of what someone tells you.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

We don't accept the legitimacy of these proceedings.

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

The U.N. is the sole body with the competence and legitimacy to find a way out of the crisis,

Is there legitimacy in the doubt that possibly this was all decided on, has been remorselessly unfolding for many months? I think many people think it has,

I've thought about it. And, over the weekend, I thought to myself, you know, that gives them a greater legitimacy than they seem to merit,

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

These conditions are nonnegotiable. It is not whether there will be a short-term cease-fire or a long-term cease-fire. It is not whether they want to eliminate us now or if they will wait 20 years to do it. A democratic victory does not provide legitimacy or a quick dry-cleaning service to a terrorist organization.

The swings of international assistance from government to nongovernmental organizations and back, according to the legitimacy of the government of the day, have disrupted long-term development in the past,

Sometimes they say they are working on behalf of a client because it helps add a little bit of legitimacy and obscures what's really going on.

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

As a group of players, with the season that we've had, it somewhat validates what we've done, adds a bit of legitimacy to this team. When a player of his stature comes in with a no-trade clause, he's usually looking to go to one of the bigger teams, like the Rangers . So this isn't par for the course.

The brutal, massive and shameless intervention of the government that we witnessed in the last months has diminished the legitimacy of this election.

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

This election, without us being allowed to participate as a presidential candidate, will have no legitimacy whatsoever.

This election could have produced a parliament that really reflected the wants and needs of the Afghan people to be free from the rule of the gun . . . and for clinics, roads, schools and jobs. Instead what we may get is a parliament stocked with figures who represent the bloody past and who have very little legitimacy or competence to address the basic needs of the country.

This initiative is a real knife in the back ... because it aims to give international legitimacy to a terrorist group and we must oppose it with all our means.

They have been counted properly, ... And we don't need to go back to all that old thing. You know what? This election was held on its proper day and counted properly and, you know, frankly, to go back now and try to undermine the legitimacy of this election is very troubling.

there will be no legitimacy to the constitution.

There must be appropriate tension between stories of real pain, loss and tragedy with those of resiliency, optimism and hope, ... It must give those of the culture a real sense of legitimacy and possibility, but also be a museum that is a lens into what it means to be an American, with a message that all of us are shaped indelibly by this African-American experience.

They recognized the importance of the same-sex marriage decision. We're a bit of an egalitarian state, and we don't like elites making these decisions for us ... courts don't have the legitimacy it seems to me that a popular vote would have.

They're going to have to see more Sunnis brought into the constitution-writing if there's going to be any legitimacy at the end of the day, ... And I think we'll see that.

As president of Argentina, I repeat we are fully convinced of the legitimacy of out historical rights,

It's ludicrous to say that a layman can't read a tape. The result is that if a complaint is not done and examined by another engineer, there is no legitimacy to it.

The next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to democracy in 1982.

The international community should make clear that its support - which has bolstered Musharraf's claim to legitimacy - will quickly evaporate unless he shows he is serious about taking steps towards democratic reforms.

The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.

I'm not surprised that they would attempt to create a false veneer of legitimacy by promoting their cause through the mouths of Jews and Israelis. It doesn't matter who is speaking; what matters is the content of the message, and that message of an analogy between South African apartheid and Zionism is false and extreme.

If there is no question as to the legitimacy and legality of their operation, then everything ought to be on the table for the media and anyone else to look at.

If Washington was not the capital of the United States, there would have been no chance that a baseball franchise would be put within such close proximity to an existing franchise. But on that basis, I agree with the location because we in baseball say baseball is our national pastime, and I think there's a great deal of legitimacy to that.

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

His legitimacy is based on the lingering respect for his father. This is also, perhaps, why he keeps his next-in-line out of site - to keep himself enshrined and base his son's legitimacy on himself.

Holocaust-deniers are not scholars or researchers -- they are bigots who try to hide their anti-semitism behind the mask of fake scholarship. For a U.S. government report to call them 'scholars' gives them the legitimacy they desperately crave but do not deserve.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

I don't think the legitimacy argument washes. I think that whoever wins this election, provided that they do so in a constitutional way and in a fair way, is going to have the country rally behind them, whether that's Vice President Gore or Governor Bush.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

already acquired the moral legitimacy for acting as bona fide global cop.

The election has proved his popularity has gone down. His legitimacy was greatly affected.

The concept of legitimacy in Thailand is not just about elections. It has a moral and ethical component to it.

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ...

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.