Albert E. Bowen Quotes
The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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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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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
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In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.
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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
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Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.
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I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
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The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
