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Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Safety
Giving
National
Control
White
White House
Congress
Our
Resources
Security
Recommendations
Followed
Laws
Had
Safe
House
Always
Issue
America
National Security
Whenever
Regardless
Public
Them
Enforce
Who
Public Safety
Keep
Need
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
Jim Yong Kim
People
Evidence
Bad
Laws
Prevent
Clear
Participating
Economies
Institutionalized
Also
Enact
Discrimination
Workforce
Productive
Fully
Suffer
Societies
Widespread
Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them.
Joan Larsen
Wish
Say
Would
Laws
Supposed
Make
Judges
According
Them
Should
They Say
Interpret
These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.
Joe Wilson
Health
Legal
People
Immigration
Care
Country
Our
Laws
Come
Attorney
Health Care
Been
Providing
Legal Immigration
Should
Full
Who
Services
Violated
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
John Barrasso
Immigration
Country
Own
Congress
President
Our
Appropriate
Immigration Policy
About
Something
Laws
Make
Policy
His
Gets
Decide
Place
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark
Service
Broken
Business
World
Become
Doubt
Section
We Cannot
Administrative
Invaluable
Laws
Through
Clear
Render
Dead
Afford
Commission
Any
Cannot
Whether
View
Business World
Large
Letter
Vagueness
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner
Government
Think
Everything
Books
Crisis
Possibly
Gulf
Restoring
Laws
Condition
End
Going
After
Enforcing
Should
Means
Original
Bring
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'
John Cornyn
Government
Experience
Sunshine
Long
Nation
Our
Pleased
Strongest
Laws
Having
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Open
Since
Known
Am
Texas
Report
Little
Use
Believed
Ever
Set
There are definitely problems with technology companies, mostly around privacy, in my opinion, and the fact that they don't protect our privacy and we haven't passed privacy laws.
John Delaney
Technology
Privacy
Problems
Our
Definitely
Laws
Fact
Protect
Mostly
Around
Opinion
Passed
In My Opinion
Companies
Technology Companies
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
John Dryden
Possess
Laws
Prince
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore
Mathematics
Broken
You
Privacy
Physics
Build
Society
Month
Ourselves
Kind
Give
Laws
How
Real
Personal
Want
Communications
Many
Guarantee
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
War
Laws
Fairly
Done
May
Legitimate
Which
Warfare
Such A Thing
Thing
Things
In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more - no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.
John Hickenlooper
Age
Waiting
Matter
Gun
Research
Lobby
Background
Tries
Purchase
Purchases
Magazine
Laws
More
Colorado
Red
Checks
Periods
Pass
How
Passed
Limits
Block
Flag
Hard
Fund
Extend
Universal
Raise
Violence
Need
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
Challenges
Heart
Society
Types
Those
Lies
Civil
Civil Society
Laws
Implemented
Economy
Institutions
Make
Pass
How
Question
Effectiveness
Which
Union
European
European Union
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
John Jay Hooker
Government
Me
Constitution
Integrity
People
Made
Become
Others
Those
Laws
Attending
Talking
Reform
Efforts
Uphold
Convention
Convinced
Should
Many
Thereof
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
John Moody
Situation
Evils
Laws
Both
Fact
New
Understand
Dealing
Were
Did
Managers
Explained
Public
Agency
Inherent
Many
Whose
Railroad
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
Fear
Censorship
Way
Dread
Fearful
Magic
Laws
Writers
Feel
Primitive
Suppose
Print
Flattered
Should
Show
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
John O. Brennan
Time
Values
President
Took
Approach
Our
President Obama
Obama
Perceived
Laws
Counterterrorism
Effectiveness
Office
Efforts
Legitimacy
Viewed
Therefore
Internationally
Symbol
Guantanamo
By The Time
We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
John O. Brennan
Law
Will
Nation
Laws
Bounds
Within
Always
Act
It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
John Paul Stevens
Job
Our
Laws
Written
Been
Apply
I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
John Perry Barlow
Law
Behavior
Strongly
Laws
Still
Opposed
Personal
Any
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu
Constitution
Legal
Marriage
Power
Own
State
States
Defining
Recognize
Laws
Moreover
Forced
Within
Left
Should
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo
War
Light
Prison
Ghraib
Scandal
Critics
Laws
Arguing
Abu
Abuse
Climate
Prisoners
Iraqi
Being
Produced
Disregard
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
War
Legal
Obey
Protection
Lost
Claim
Responsible
Status
Wearing
Obeying
Laws
Structure
Had
POW
Failing
Taliban
Command
Conduct
Conventions
While
Uniforms
Fighters
Standards
Initial
What we need is a bipartisan commitment to improving the laws on the books, to lower premiums, to improve access and improve quality of care.
Jon Ossoff
Quality
Commitment
Care
Books
Laws
Access
Improve
Improving
Lower
Need
Bipartisan
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.
Jonathan Coleman
Business
Thought
Sense
Settled
Ways
Has-Been
Something
Laws
Only
Gives
Never
Taken
Feel
Most
Comfort
Reduced
Been
False
Often
Race
Manipulative
Far
Us
Used
Many
Whole
Needed
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