Legal Quotes

151. Dowry is still pervasive and spreading like cancer in the society. Apart from legal sanctions, there should be more social awareness on the issue so that people start to practice what they preach.

^{Sheikh Hasina}

152. After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

^{George W. Bush}

153. 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 thetaxpayer.

^{Ben Nighthorse Campbell}

154. On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that’s fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

^{John McCain}

155. We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

^{Nikki Haley}

156. I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

^{Sienna Miller}

157. There’s a security, a validity of knowing that it’s legal. It’s hard to put into words. It’s just a feeling, I guess – something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

^{Matt Bomer}

158. We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

^{Romeo LeBlanc}

159. Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

^{Kimberle Williams Crenshaw}

160. Building a ‘Green Gabon’ has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.

^{Ali Bongo Ondimba}

161. It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

^{Annie Besant}

162. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

^{Mike Pompeo}

163. Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

^{Lionel Trilling}

164. When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it’s merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

^{Alexei Navalny}

165. Though I don’t personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

^{Ron Paul}

166. Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

^{Omar al-Bashir}

167. Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

^{Wilhelm von Humboldt}

168. Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

^Ilaiyaraaja

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

^{Abbie Hoffman}

170. 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}

171. A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

^{Stephanie Coontz}

172. Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

^{Carlo Azeglio Ciampi}

173. Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

^{Jerrold Nadler}

174. We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that’s globalisation… In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away… people know full well how we live in Europe.

^{Angela Merkel}

175. The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

^{Andrew Jackson}

176. I didn’t grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay.

^{Abby Johnson}

177. Judges cannot – nor should they try to – align our legal system with the Church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church’s standard.

^{Amy Coney Barrett}

178. I lived Tom Girardi’s legal life with him first 10 years of our relationship. I went to every legal organization, every event – all of those groups he belonged to and those speeches he gave.

^{Erika Jayne}

179. If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person’s house for a week, it’s considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it’s perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

^{Vince Vaughn}

180. In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament… Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

^{Carles Puigdemont}

181. I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don’t permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don’t exacerbate the problem.

^{Ed Rendell}

182. We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

^{Beeban Kidron}

183. Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

^{Deeyah Khan}

184. I do not believe abortion should be legal.

^{Herman Cain}

185. The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

^{Abraham Lincoln}

186. Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there’s little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

^{David Malpass}

187. I’m more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We’re still married as parents.

^{Bobby Darin}