George W. Plunkitt Quotes

This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the age. It is the curse of the nation.

George W. Plunkitt

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Just
  • Curse
  • Sit

• Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Control
  • Pollution

• Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Law
  • Support
  • Immigration

• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Law
  • Moment

• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Synergy

• I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Feeling
  • Law

• That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Law

• In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Country
  • Law
  • Democracy

• The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.

  

  James Comey
  • Up
  • Home
  • Together

• But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Funeral

• I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.

  

  Jim Webb
  • War
  • Career
  • Law

• Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Political
  • Law

• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

  

  Joe Biden
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Law

• I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

  

  Little Simz
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Sunshine came softly through my a-window todayCould've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my waysIt'll take time, I know it but in a whileYou're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

  Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Good
  • Together
  • Song

• This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the age. It is the curse of the nation.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Law
  • Nation
  • Curse