P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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 -
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke -
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
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.
J. M. Coetzee
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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.
Ed Rendell -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
Jack Kingston -
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.
Iris Chang -
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
Gail Simmons -
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
Manny Pacquiao
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin -
I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
Pam Bondi -
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong -
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge -
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
Gavin Newsom -
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'
J. C. Watts
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain -
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
Boris Yeltsin -
Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.
Dalai Lama -
He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?
Edward St Aubyn -
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Jose Mujica -
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
P. J. O'Rourke