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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. -- Blaise Pascal
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries. -- Barton Gellman
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. -- Samuel Butler
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. -- Phyllis Schlafly
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. -- Horace Gray
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. -- Tom Allen
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. -- Paul Watson
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction. -- George Will
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. -- John Sherman Cooper
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. -- Robert Ballard
But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction. -- Cliff Stearns
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them. -- Preston Brooks
Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control. -- Peter Thiel
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block. -- Deval Patrick
A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist. -- Gene Luen Yang
Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. -- Felix de Weldon
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. -- Richard Perle
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. -- Mario Monti
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws. -- Ellen Key
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. -- Joe Biden
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education. -- Mike Huckabee
In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart. -- Noah Hawley
The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . . -- Alexander Hamilton
It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country -- Thomas Jefferson
The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world. -- Terry Pratchett
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction. -- William Cowper
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. -- Thomas Jefferson
John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. -- Nasim Pedrad
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity. -- Edgard Varese
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. -- Alice Paul
The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot. -- Cruz Bustamante
Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does? -- Jesse Ventura
I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us. -- Tony Abbott
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. -- Michel de Montaigne
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. -- Frances Perkins
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him. -- Norman Cousins
Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction. -- Esther Perel
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. -- Stephen Harper
It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits. -- Thomas Jefferson
The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction. -- James Madison
The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore." -- Stephen Jay Gould
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction. -- Michel de Montaigne
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states. -- Mike Huckabee

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