Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
I had mixed feelings - like watching my mother in law drive over a cliff in your car.
Terry Venables
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is
Montaigne
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark
Once victim, always victim - that's the law!
Thomas Hardy
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law (Book of the Law)
Aleister Crowley
Dirt is only matter out of place; and what is a blot on the escutcheon of the Common Law may be a jewel in the crown of the Social Republic
John Chipman Gray
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline Pankhurst
The law cannot equalize men in spite of Nature.
Luc De Vauvanargues
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael
The stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industries plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies!
Beth Vargo
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs
Montaigne
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Bill Clinton
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean De La Bruyere
It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
Herrick Johnson
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom
Montaigne
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles Montesquieu
If the England selectors make the same mistakes Australia have, which is not to address the flaws when you're successful, then down the track you're going to have some problems
Ian Chappell
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?
Ayn Rand
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I did break the law... I was wrong... drugs are wrong
Jacqui Smith
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
William Ralph Inge
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'Casey
Custom, the unwritten law,
By which the people keep even kings in awe. [Circe, II]
Charles Davenant
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whatever the commission wants to do to satisfy itself that everything is in conformity with the law, the Conservative party will assist it to do [on party loans]
Oliver Letwin
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat.
Michel De Montaigne
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S Lewis
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H G Wells
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal
Felix Frankfurter
Manners are stronger than laws
Thomas Carlyle
Christianity is part of the laws of England.
Sir Matthew Hale
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Larry Summers
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
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