#law

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#being #cadre #cops #date #enforcement

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#based #because #being #clinton #consider

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#flaws #granted #insecurities #into #know

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#break #crime #going #interesting #law

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#bosom #civilized #civilized society #exist #law

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#constantly #degree #growing #growing up #important

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. ↗

— Michael Steele

#bad people #citizens #control #country #doing

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#greater #laws #motherhood #natural #natural laws