Law Quotes - Page 326

Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.