Donna Brazile Quotes

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Country
  • Single
  • Justice

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Work
  • Long
  • Country

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Society
  • Law

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Always
  • Mercy

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Law
  • Community
  • Action

• The watchword is only one, categorical and challenging for everyone. It already flies across and lights the hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: Winning! And we will win, in order to finally give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, to the world. (From the declaration of war's announce, 10 June 1940)

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  

  Arthur Goldberg
  • Power
  • Age
  • Law

• You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Law

• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Men

• The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Law
  • Justice