Jack Valenti Quotes
I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.
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I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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'Do you understand what’s going on?''Not at all,' he shouted back. 'I can almost prove this can’t be happening.'
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
