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It is one of the most beautiful things about our country that just one individual, so long as he or she has the law on their side, can take on the most powerful institutions or people in the land and win.
Gina Miller
Beautiful
People
Win
Law
Most Beautiful
Long
Country
Side
Our
About
Individual
Take
He
He Or She
Powerful
Institutions
Most
Beautiful Things
Most Powerful
She
Just
Just One
Land
Things
We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.
Emily Thornberry
Respect
Rights
Heart
Law
Human Rights
Back
Put
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Human
International
International Law
Belief
Need
It is up to Labour to keep alive the belief that government should be for the whole nation and that no section of society should place itself beyond scrutiny and above the law.
Emily Thornberry
Government
Law
Nation
Society
Alive
Section
Above
Beyond
Up
Itself
Labour
Place
Scrutiny
Should
Whole
Belief
Keep
I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.
Joe Sestak
Law
Signs
Become
Believe
President
Statements
Signing
General
Except
Within
Effectively
Provision
Veto
Committing
Themselves
Enforcing
Should
Act
Use
Agree
Believes
I feel a special bond with the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
William Barr
Law
I Feel
Memorial
Law Enforcement
Feel
Officers
Enforcement
Special
Bond
When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress.
Hillary Clinton
Women
Law
First
Positions
Our
Appropriate
Those
Out
Tried
Dress
Case
Through
Period
Bows
Ties
Get
Where
Public
Little
Ribbon
Wore
Younger
Figure
Started
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.
Zephyr Teachout
History
Law
Criminal
Term
Contract
Quid
Pro
Quo
Interesting
Bribery
Originally
As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.
Gina Miller
Great
Culture
Law
National
Decency
Believe
Great Britain
Rule
Rule Of Law
Embedded
Promised
Promised Land
Fabric
Brought
Had
Observed
Been
Up
Child
Where
Commonwealth
Land
Britain
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.
Malik Yoba
Law
Detectives
Law Enforcement
Lots
Friends
Bureau
Agents
Enforcement
Who
Played
I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
James Forman, Jr.
Justice
Judge
Law
School
Year
Circuit
William
Law School
Court
After
Then
Next
Next Year
Appeals
Right
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
Henry Rollins
Rights
Law
Lyndon
President
States
Signed
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
Johnson
Nonetheless
Opposed
Southern
Southern States
Act
Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are vital to reduce future abuses of libel law.
Simon Singh
Future
Law
Libel
Corporations
Worst
Sections
Critics
Vital
Cases
Abuse
Particular
Involved
Reduce
Campaign
Reform
Bill
Many
Suing
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
Martin O'Malley
Home
Marriage
Equality
Law
Opportunity
Live
Caring
Our
Marriage Equality
Protected
Equally
Issue
Committed
Stable
Children
Happen
Wherever
Loving
Us
Stand
Agree
Deserve
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. 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
Life
Man
Money
Wealth
Law
Men
Poverty
Own
Rich
Striving
Tell
Takes
Well
Makes
None
Go
His
Often
Rich Man
Away
Chances
Historically, Hong Kong has served as an important bridge between China and the world. Our freedoms, stability and the rule of law have been the reasons for our success.
Joshua Wong
Success
World
Law
Important
Hong Kong
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Between
Freedoms
Kong
Been
Historically
Stability
China
Reasons
Bridge
Served
My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.
Joshua Wong
Age
Generation
Law
Become
Lose
Hong Kong
Rule
Rule Of Law
Would
City
My Generation
Shared
Freely
Like
Most
Returned
Another
Territory
Kong
Came
Were
Just
Where
So-Called
After
Information
China
Chinese
Ignored
The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
Gavin O'Connor
Eyes
World
Law
Clown
Criminal
Wear
Superhero
Costume
He
Green
Human
The Palestinians have yet to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law.
Mark Meadows
Commitment
Law
Rule
Rule Of Law
Demonstrate
Palestinians
At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.
Akshaye Khanna
Day
Man
Law
End Of The Day
Minister
India
Prime
Prime Minister
End
Same
Common
Common Man
Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
Martha Nussbaum
Good
Justice
Anger
Rights
People
Emotions
Law
Fear
Safety
Compassion
Pain
Others
Our
Some
Laws
Wrongdoing
Protect
Make
Principles
Essential
Public
Reasons
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
Martha Nussbaum
Culture
Law
Men
Military
Has-Been
Would
Delicacy
Tenderness
He
Since
Quakers
Wrote
Because
Greatest
George
Been
George Washington
Dominant
Famous
Public
Explaining
Them
Scruples
Require
Whole
Washington
Letter
Deserve
Ever
Serve
Conscientious
Position
You can't keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That's not America. I dare say that's not even a good conservative value. We're all supposed to have an equal shot.
Dustin Lance Black
Good
You
People
Conservative
Law
Value
Differences
Say
Dare
Supposed
Equal
Because
America
Shot
Even
Keep
Differently
Treating
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
Uzodinma Iweala
War
Law
Sometimes
Poverty
Own
Our
Rules
Constant
Law Enforcement
Various
Drivers
Between
Make
Eradicate
Traffic
Deployed
Forms
Enforcement
Disorder
Street
We are building a national and worldwide network of law enforcement excellence - a network that, through cooperation, allows us to meet the challenges we all face.
William Barr
Challenges
Law
Face
Building
National
Worldwide
Meet
Law Enforcement
Network
Excellence
Through
Us
Enforcement
Cooperation
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
Harvey Weinstein
Age
Cinema
Law
Guts
Through
Push
Had
French
Because
Golden
Golden Age
Again
Copyright
Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.
Zephyr Teachout
Selfish
Corruption
People
Law
Most
Private
Years
Debates
Office
Ends
Central
Public
Use
Public Office
Last
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