James Comey Quotes

The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.

James Comey

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

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• Si veris magna paraturfama bonis et si successu nuda remotoinspicitur virtus, quidquid laudamus in ullomaiorum, fortuna fuit.

  

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• The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.

  

  James Comey
  • Law