Quotes with law-makers

Quotes 361 till 380 of 429.

  • Barack Obama Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
    Source: Op eerste dag president, 21 jan. 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Immanuel Kant Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Salman Rushdie Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Derek Jarman Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Watson We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Emmeline Pankhurst We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
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  • Arthur O'Shaunessey We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
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  • Bart Stupak We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Edmund Burke We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Carl Rowan We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
    Source: 1981 column.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Barry Diller We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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