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Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. -- Ted Nugent
We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way. -- Panayiotis Zavos
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens. -- Emmanuel Teney
There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. -- Wesley Snipes
The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools. -- Steve Stockman
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. -- Rick Perry
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. -- Richard Perle
I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles! -- Gillian Jacobs
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. -- Kate Atkinson
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. -- Donna Leon
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. -- Gary Bauer
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. -- James Earl Jones
We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. -- Julian Castro
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. -- Thomas Paine
What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad. -- Jim Jordan
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. -- Ferdinand Mount
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. -- John Dingell
In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law. -- Rush Limbaugh
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No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate. -- Julian Baggini
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
I am pathetically law-abiding. -- Caitlin Moran
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. -- Henry David Thoreau
Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves. -- Wayne LaPierre
Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry. -- Rob Bishop
I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by. -- Burl Ives
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business! -- Rand Paul
A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other. -- Melanie Phillips
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. -- Ted Nugent
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust. -- James Madison
This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller. -- Larry Craig
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense. -- Donald Trump
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people. -- Rupert Murdoch
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. -- Ron Wyden
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? -- Cullen Hightower
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. -- Cullen Hightower
The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all. -- Gregory Kane
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime. -- Paul Broun
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe. -- Mike Pence
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play. -- Theodore Roosevelt
You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality. -- Wong Kiew Kit
What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are. -- Rand Paul
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism. -- Russ Feingold
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them. -- John McGinnis
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer. -- Albert Ellis
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. -- Alexander Lebed
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. -- Alexander Lebed
Coordinating our efforts and sharing information and expertise is a great way to step up our fight against violent criminals. We are determined to make Ontario communities safer for law abiding citizens. -- Julian Fantino
My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. -- Jerry Brown
I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it. -- Steven Seagal
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials. -- Charlton Heston
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. -- Thomas Sowell
I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe. -- Mike Pence
If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. -- John Dingell
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal. -- Bobby Sands
Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture. -- George W. Bush

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