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I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

- Harold H. Greene

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

- Peter Sotos

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

- Jim Sensenbrenner

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

- Evander Holyfield

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

- Anatoly Chubais

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

- Val Kilmer

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

- Franklin P. Jones

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

- Harold H. Greene

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

- Joseph Ratzinger

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

- Igor Ivanov

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

- Preston Manning

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

- John Philpot Curran

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

- Constance Baker Motley

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

- James Patrick Murray

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

- Michael Moriarty

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

- Nelson Algren

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

- John Philpot Curran

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

- Jose Maria Aznar

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

- Rahm Emanuel

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

- Tony Campolo

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

- Virgil Goode

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

- Harold H. Greene

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

- Harold H. Greene

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

- Harold H. Greene

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

- Abbie Hoffman

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

- James Otis

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

- Harold H. Greene

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

- Joseph Rotblat