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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson
Believe
Difficult
Respond
Some
Laws
Oblivious
Point
He
Gore
Existing
Al
Al Gore
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
Time
Wish
Laws
Safeguard
How
Were
Discrimination
Us
Lived
Necessary
I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
Benjamin Wittes
Abortion
Favor
Laws
Generally
Permissive
For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a different mentality.
Beppe Grillo
Laws
Mentality
American
Different
Barriers
Profits
Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
Bill Flores
Trafficking
State
Criminals
Charged
Detention
Laws
Go
Been
Offenders
Current
Current State
Victims
Juvenile
Who
Many
Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.
Bill Kristol
Complicated
Immigration
Say
Ways
Complex
Immigration Laws
Immigration Policy
Laws
Since
Perhaps
Policies
Policy
Practices
Issue
Interact
Different
Which
Should
Many
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal
Justice
Will
Our
Examination
Laws
Thus
Since
Without
Just
Established
Regarded
Necessarily
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
Bob Barr
Today
Challenges
Intelligence
Impossible
Difficult
Adequate
Laws
Argue
Written
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
Bob Barr
Government
Constitution
State
Despite
Laws
Bear
Individual
Supreme
Arms
Supreme Court
Court
Enact
Continue
Affirming
Amendment
Unequivocally
Human
Just
Against
Decisions
Human Right
Keep
Fundamental
Right
Second
Second Amendment
Two
Guarantees
I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.
Bob Corker
Laws
Like
Really
We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
Bob Filner
Justice
Obligation
Responsibility
Moral Obligation
Congress
Society
Criminals
Furthermore
Ensure
Moral
Unpunished
Laws
Go
Families
Victims
Based
Bring
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
Bobby Jindal
Government
People
First
Country
National
Our
Security
Must
Laws
Drivers
Identification
Makes
Providing
Mockery
Efforts
National Security
Stop
Forms
Them
I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?
Boots Riley
Work
Government
Problem
Law
Superheroes
General
Laws
Because
Uphold
Politically
Who
Cops
I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.
Boris Johnson
Needs
Opportunity
Glorious
Believe
Our
Entirely
Laws
Economy
Pass
According
Taxes
Now
Set
In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.
Borje Ekholm
Business
Experience
Competition
Free
Past
Framework
Unpredictability
Restricted
Laws
Free Trade
Investment
Over
Trade
Access
Due
Years
Stopped
In-Laws
Decisions
Capital
Regulatory
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
Bram Cohen
Technology
Political
Goals
Evil
Changing
Despite
Way
Would
Laws
Only
Arena
Fail
Emphasis
Inevitably
Political Arena
Existing
Succeed
View
Inherently
Help
Even
Techniques
Fundamentally
Rejected
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Byron White
Law
Will
Busy
Indeed
Moral
Constantly
Morality
Laws
Clause
Courts
Due
Very
Essentially
Representing
Process
Choices
Notions
Based
The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
Caitlin Moran
Life
Me
Change
Mistake
Women
Humanity
Own
Control
Our
Everything
Able
Entire
About
Laws
My Own
Could
Had
Idea
Come
Genuinely
Mothers
Am
Repeal
Waited
Fertility
Ended
Being
Span
Might
Your
Hard
Fought
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
Caleb Cushing
Great
Heritage
Britons
Our
Liberties
Brought
Kings
Laws
Great Republic
Part
America
Which
Formed
Republic
Us
Europe
Found
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin
Critical
Guns
Seek
Laws
Prevention
Steps
Safe
Involving
Access
Reduce
Occurrence
Accidental
Child
Storage
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
Carol Moseley Braun
Government
Democracy
Congress
Think
Our
Address
Way
Out
Laws
Clearly
Like
Looks
How
Truly
Campaign
America
Get
Representative
Want
Then
Need
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
Carolyn McCarthy
War
Enemies
Gun
Country
Own
Our
Gun Laws
Laws
Allow
Arm
Terror
Themselves
Right
Here
Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.
Carolyn Porco
Science
Assuming
Way
Circumstances
Responsible
Physical
Some
Laws
Come
Know
Understand
How
Motive
Question
Which
Capable
Agent
Ask
Asking
Really
Means
Reason
Why
My Catholic faith guides me and imbues the principles I hold in protecting and preserving God's creation. As a U.S. senator, I strive to bring this faith to my work and allow these principles to guide me as I consider the best way to influence public policy and create laws with my colleagues.
Catherine Cortez-Masto
Work
God
Faith
Best
Me
Creation
Preserving
Consider
Guide
Way
Guides
Strive
Colleagues
Best Way
Laws
Allow
Protecting
Catholic
Policy
Principles
Catholic Faith
Senator
Influence
Hold
Public
Create
Public Policy
Bring
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.
Cesare Beccaria
Great
Gratitude
Simple
Prosperity
Nation
Nothing
Down
Earn
Considered
Those
Sign
Would
Easy
Immortal
Laws
Hymns
Throughout
Generations
Him
Least
Spread
Wanted
Which
Await
Vigour
Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.
Cesare Beccaria
Man
Fear
Men
Feelings
Superficial
Laws
Lead
Cruel
Nevertheless
Most
Greater
Because
Subjected
Than
Moderate
Being
Interest
Prefer
Them
Themselves
Each
Injure
Injured
Desire
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