Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'd just as soon they shut (Congress) down for a few years. All they do is keep passing laws and figuring out ways to spend our money.

I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.

Colleen Hanabusa

I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

We take them to another level of knowledge after the students already have some driving experience on their own, teaching them additional driving techniques and an understanding of what that several-thousand-pound hunk of metal is doing under the simple laws of physics.

To date, China's criminal, civil and administrative procedure laws have combined to form a relatively comprehensive system.

Meles Zenawi

What we have detained is people who have tried to overthrow the duly constituted government, and that in my view is treason under the laws of the country,

Her efforts to limit lawsuits and access to the courts are troubling,

Here is a perfect example of why we need to make sure that federal laws intended to make the older, dirty ... power plants clean up are not weakened.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!

Rachel Sklar

Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

He's dead, and until he was proven guilty, which he was never proven guilty, I can only standby what our laws say in this country. He's an innocent man and he's dead and we have to pick up the pieces and go on.

Angela Merkel

I am firmly convinced we must make changes with laws protecting against sacking in order to give people a chance to find work who would not otherwise be hired.

I am filing this lawsuit because the Bush administration is putting at risk some of the last, most pristine portions of America's national forests.

I believe the voice of the people is clear and yet our laws appear to accommodate the individuals with the largest bank account, ... The actions being displayed do not encourage confidence in our county government.

I believe there are already laws that protect me. If those that threatened me carried out their threats, the laws would protect me.

But even if it were the case that the natural laws had nolonger any secret for us, we could still know the situation approximately.

Richard Perle

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer.

Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country.

Elizabeth Warren

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

China has enacted a number of laws to protect intellectual property, including a law to protect semiconductor layout designs. Enforcement of IP protection laws has been widely recognized as falling short of what is needed to deter violations. In some cases, penalties for violation of IP rights are so light that they are considered to be a routine cost of doing business.

I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the Orient 2 explosion is that new federal laws were enacted that no doubt saved other miners' lives. This site has been and it remains an important part of the nation's history concerning coal mining and it's located right here in Franklin County.

I feel glad it all came to an end. I never intended to hit anyone. The day I threw the cup I forgot about the laws of physics. I hope that no one ever throws anything at The Palace again.

I did everything but get down on my knees, ... I know I was at boiling point. It wasn't just about Mario. It was about so many young people ? and the laws becoming tougher and more mean-spirited.

Mark Twain

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant

Mark Anderson

I can't speak for the vinyl siding industry, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me to see a lawsuit emanate from this from some party involved. In fact, I would imagine it is inevitable.

I can't guarantee that you will win the lawsuit - in fact you will almost certainly lose. But I warn you that if you are too timid to confront their barbaric behavior, you will be completely defeated.

Brian Roberts

I can't guarantee aren't going to see some lawsuits because you probably are. Why not do it in a licensed model? If usage happens, value follows.

He's been invaluable as an advocate for strengthening border security, enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and removing the incentives that drive illegal immigration in the first place.

Hopefully the lawsuit gets cleared up and we can progress.

There is an urgent need for integration of the enterprise laws for foreign enterprises and domestic enterprises.

David Hudson

Under First Amendment jurisprudence, content-based laws are presumptively unconstitutional and can be justified only if the governmental regulation advances a compelling interest in the least restrictive means available.

Matisyahu

What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being healthy. But according to some people, it's about not eating this food because it's forbidden by the Jewish law. My view of the halachah changed a little bit. The laws are there hopefully to be a tool.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.